1. The Ayn Rand University press recently published Harry Binswanger’s 1975 doctoral dissertation, The Biological Basis of Teleological Co...

  1. The Ayn Rand Institute Archives are now searchable , but the on-line Archives seem limited to Rand’s letters. 2. Sam Tannenhaus jus...

1. Harry Binswanger doesn’t like Harvard , and in particular its philosophy department.   I’m no historian of philosophy, but I have read ...

The Atlantic Magazine published a lengthy article, The Curse of Ayn Rand’s Heir , which discuses Leonard Peikoff and his relationship with R...

1. Carl Barney has funded The Leonard Peikoff Library , a website containing all of Leonard Peikoff’s lectures and courses. 2. Ayn Rand ...

The Ayn Rand Institute’s (ARI) Chief Philosophy Officer Onkar Ghate and philosopher Ben Bayer have a new video, Why the Ayn Rand Institute C...

1.       Ayn Rand Institute philosopher Ben Bayer attacks Christianity .   While there are things to disagree with, Bayer actually has read ...

1. Shoshana Milgram, who has been working on a biography of Ayn Rand for at least twenty years, gave an interesting talk at OCON 2024 – “Beh...

1. The Ayn Rand Lette r (1971-1976) is now out in a moderately priced paperback edition. 2. The Ayn Rand Fan Club has a review of the Ob...

1.     The Ayn Rand Fan Club interviews anarcho-capitalist Walter Block .   Block discusses his involvement with the Objectivist movement in...

1. Alexandra Popoff, author of the new biography of Ayn Rand, is interviewed here . 2. The Ayn Rand Fan Club interviewed David Kelley o...

Back in 2009, I wrote an essay Retouching Rand , which discussed the Ayn Rand Institute’s efforts to create a better Ayn Rand.   These effor...

1. The Ayn Rand Institute’s Elan Journo interviewed Harry Binswanger about Alexandra Popoff’s new biography of Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand: Creating...

1. The first biography of Ayn Rand in fifteen years just came out, Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success by Alexandra Popoff.  Chris Matt...

In 2008, I published a blog post, Is Orthodox Objectivism a Religion?  A lot has happened in the last sixteen years – the retirement of Leon...

Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success by Alexandra Popoff is the first biography of Ayn Rand since the 2009 biographies of Rand by Anne Hel...

1.  The big news, by far, this month is the publication of a new biography of Ayn Rand in the prestigious Yale University Jewish Lives seri...

Charlotte Kushner over at the americanthinker.com has written a harsh critique of ARI's attack of Matt Walsh's documentary "Wh...