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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

ARI on Vaccines and the Pandemic

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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...
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Monday, August 23, 2021

How I Became a Critic of Objectivism 4

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Rand's epistemology constitutes the most intimidating part of the Objectivist philosophy. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology is a...
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Saturday, July 17, 2021

How I Became a Critic of Objectivism 3

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Our understanding of what constitutes “human nature” can come from at least three sources: personal experience, literature, and scientific i...
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Saturday, June 26, 2021

How I Became a Critic of Objectivism 2

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The issue of philosophical literacy is a troubling one for Objectivism on multiple levels. To begin with, many of Rand’s most ardent followe...
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Monday, June 14, 2021

How I became a critic of Objectivism 1

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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...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Primary reasons for not becoming an Objectivist

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Many of Rand's critics object to Rand's philosophy because it does not agree with their own. Ideologues want everyone to accept thei...
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Thursday, May 20, 2021

Yaron Brook converses with Anarchist Michael Malice

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Yaron Brook is still seeking conversations with intellectual figures who can draw a larger audience than he can muster on his own. He manage...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2021

New Book: "The Faux-Rationality of Ayn Rand"

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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...
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Sunday, March 07, 2021

Peikoff vs. ARI

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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...
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Friday, January 15, 2021

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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...
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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Molyneux and the Objectivist Tradition 6

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UPB: Criterion for ethics . Universally preferable behavior, which is the core concept of Molyneux’s ethical speculations, is not an easy ...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Molyneux and the Objectivist Tradition 5

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UPB: The necessary premises of debating, pt. 2 . Molyneux argues in his book Universally Preferable Behavior that denying his theory of mo...
Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Molyneux and the Objectivist Tradition 4

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UPB 4: The necessary premises of debating 1 . Molyneux’s sophistry reaches its apex when he commences on the thankless task of “validating”...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Molyneux and the Objectivist Tradition 3

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UPB 3: Preferences and morality . In his book Universal Preferable Behavior, Molyneux begins his disquisition on ethics by comparing assert...
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Monday, June 29, 2020

Molyneux and the Objectivist Tradition 2

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UPB 2: Foundationalism and logic . Central to Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism is the largely unsubstantiated assertion that the “objectivit...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Slouching Toward the Next Schism

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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...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Molyneux and the Objectivist Tradition 1

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UPB: intro . Stefan Molyneux’s theory of Universally Preferable Behavior (i.e., UPB) is an attempt to establish moral principles on the same...
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Sunday, April 05, 2020

The Objectivist "Tradition" Going Forward

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Philosophical traditions, like viruses, must mutate if they wish to remain relevant even among their adherents. Orthodox Objectivism has re...
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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Objectivism and COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the response from government presents various challenges to the political ideology of Objectivism, since it prese...
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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Objectivism vs. Sam Harris

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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...
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