Susan Hanson has published an article in The American Thinker attacking ARI's views on the Covid-19 pandemic. While she makes a few go...

Rand's epistemology constitutes the most intimidating part of the Objectivist philosophy. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology is a...

Our understanding of what constitutes “human nature” can come from at least three sources: personal experience, literature, and scientific i...

The issue of philosophical literacy is a troubling one for Objectivism on multiple levels. To begin with, many of Rand’s most ardent followe...

I never intended to become a critic of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. That's just how things worked out independent of any in...

Many of Rand's critics object to Rand's philosophy because it does not agree with their own. Ideologues want everyone to accept thei...

Yaron Brook is still seeking conversations with intellectual figures who can draw a larger audience than he can muster on his own. He manage...

I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book, The Faux-Rationality of Ayn Rand , which is available at amazon.com in paperbac...

Documents reveal that Leonard Peikoff, the founder of ARI and the heir to Ayn Rand's literary estate, gave $297 to Donald Trump's M...

Anne Heller, as long ago as 2009, published her biography of Ayn Rand. I have finally gotten around to reading it and will at some point mak...

UPB: Criterion for ethics . Universally preferable behavior, which is the core concept of Molyneux’s ethical speculations, is not an easy ...

UPB: The necessary premises of debating, pt. 2 . Molyneux argues in his book Universally Preferable Behavior that denying his theory of mo...

UPB 4: The necessary premises of debating 1 . Molyneux’s sophistry reaches its apex when he commences on the thankless task of “validating”...

UPB 3: Preferences and morality . In his book Universal Preferable Behavior, Molyneux begins his disquisition on ethics by comparing assert...

UPB 2: Foundationalism and logic . Central to Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism is the largely unsubstantiated assertion that the “objectivit...

There are the makings of a potential schism at ARI. Since 1985, Carl Barney, whose made millions in the education industry, was ARI's la...

UPB: intro . Stefan Molyneux’s theory of Universally Preferable Behavior (i.e., UPB) is an attempt to establish moral principles on the same...

Philosophical traditions, like viruses, must mutate if they wish to remain relevant even among their adherents. Orthodox Objectivism has re...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the response from government presents various challenges to the political ideology of Objectivism, since it prese...

To say that Sam Harris entertains a low opinion of Ayn Rand and her disciples would be something of an understatement. He once referred to R...