1. Someone posted what Leonard Peikoff said years ago on his podcast concerning Alan Greenspan (the context was the apparent admissi...

1. The Ayn Rand Institute Press just published a new booklet, I Chose to be An American: Ayn Rand’s Immigration Story . A few point...

1. Harry Binswanger recently said that he realized by 1969 that Alan Greenspan was departing from Objectivism . As Greg Nyquist not...

1. As readers know, Carl Barney and Craig Biddle have been in litigation for a while now. Barney has gone on an internet offensive ...

1. The Ayn Rand Institute has a preview of OCON 2026 , which is being held this month. 2. With a deal between the United States and...

1.    Ayn Rand Institute archivist Brian Lisi has an interesting discussion of Rand’s speaking career.   2.    OCON 2026 will be held later ...

     In 2011, I wrote a post entitled A Reading List for Open Minded Objectivists . A lot has happened in the last fifteen years, including...

1.    In a recent interview with Ayn Rand biographer Jennifer Burns and Lex Fridman, some biographical stuff turned up that I hadn’t heard o...

1. Ayn Rand Institute philosopher Michael Mazza has some interesting ideas on studying philosophy . a. He says it’s important to read ...

1. I wonder if there is a new schism brewing.   On the same day and on the same website, James Valliant and Leonard Peikoff published two ...

1. The Ayn Rand Institute all but calls for a nuclear attack on Iran: Eliminating the threat from Iran’s Islamic totalitarian regime nece...

1. Alan Greenspan turned 100.   While Greenspan is best known for being the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, he was a member of Ayn ...

1. Craig Biddle and his Objectivist Standard Institute (“OSI”) filed a lawsuit against multi-millionaire Objectivist donor Carl Barney and...

1. An interesting discussion by an archivist of the Ayn Rand Institute on an abandoned book project by Rand that inspired Atlas Shrugged....

1. The Ayn Rand Fan Club interviewed David Harriman .   As long-time readers may recall, Harriman “edited” The Journals of Ayn Rand to su...

1. A new edition of The Letters of Ayn Rand was just published .   According to the description: This edition presents the complete transc...

1.   The big story in 2025 was the continuing controversy over the situation between Leonard Peikoff and his daughter Kira.   In 2024, Kira ...

1. Objectivist historian C. Bradley Thompson wrote and interesting article in which he argued that Marxism is a kind of Christian heresy ....

Recently, Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) Chairman of the Board Yaron Brook decided to “unload” on fellow Objectivists Andrew Bernstein, David Har...

1. American philosopher John Searle passed away .   I recall Harry Binswanger writing that he was the academic philosopher whose thought w...