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Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s Courses and Lectures

Posted on February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 by Carl Barney

Last year, I announced that Dr. Peikoff had given me permission to publicize and deliver his courses and lectures. At that time, I wrote: “When I studied Dr. Peikoff’s courses almost 40 years ago, I was thrilled by the knowledge and delighted with the clarity, certitude, and wit of his delivery. I had taken hundreds…

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ARI and the Use of “Ayn Rand”

Posted on January 13, 2021January 14, 2021 by Carl Barney

Prometheus Foundation affiliates (i.e., the Prometheus Network) are working worldwide to promote Ayn Rand and advance Objectivism. Here’s an indication of what they’ve done in just the last few months: Kalin Manolov republished the following books in Bulgarian: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, For the New Intellectual, and The Virtue of Selfishness. In addition to republishing…

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More of the FDA’s Infinite Wisdom and Benevolence…

Posted on December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 by Carl Barney

You think the FDA is a benign bureaucracy? See here regarding its massive destruction of American lives via its regulations on producers of Covid vaccines.  But the FDA’s dictates disrupt and destroy more than the production and distribution of vaccines. They also ensure that catsup makers use the “correct” amount of lemon juice in their…

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Homicide and the FDA

Posted on December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 by Carl Barney

Homicide is the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another. There are four types: capital murder, murder, manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide. War, by contrast, involves the legally sanctioned killing of a country’s enemies. But what do we call bureaucratic, government-sanctioned killing of a country’s own citizens? As our “protector,” the Food and…

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ARI is Failing: Follow-Up

Posted on November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 by Carl Barney

I’ve received many responses to my post, “ARI Is Failing and Needs Our Help,” and I appreciate them all. Some have been private emails, and some have been comments under the post. The emails and comments have been thoughtful, illuminating, and respectful of the importance of this matter. People are deeply concerned about the state…

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John Allison’s Fundraising Efforts for ARI

Posted on November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 by Carl Barney

A few days after I posted “ARI Is Failing and Needs Our Help,” the Ayn Rand Institute sent out a letter from John Allison insisting that “we [at ARI] are doing our job” and making several claims attempting to show this. I’ll address those claims below. I have great respect for John Allison as an…

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Longevity

Posted on November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 by Carl Barney

I’ve been working with the Attia Medical Group on a longevity plan (which I would be happy to share with select friends privately). In a recent memo, Attia emphasized how exercise is “the drug of choice:” “If exercise were a drug, it would be the best drug we have for preventing heart disease [the leading…

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ARI Is Failing and Needs Our Help

Posted on November 3, 2020November 18, 2020 by Carl Barney

(If you are not an Objectivist, please ignore this.) The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) is failing, and I have struggled over whether to make a statement about how and why it is failing. I understand things that Objectivists, and particularly major contributors to ARI, need to know and have a right to know. If ARI…

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More Context about Craig Biddle and ARI

Posted on November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 by Carl Barney

(If you are not an Objectivist, please ignore this.) For about 10 years, on and off, certain people at the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), most notably Onkar Ghate and Yaron Brook, have been publicly and covertly (through phone calls, emails, and social media) denouncing and blacklisting Craig Biddle and The Objective Standard (TOS). They did…

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Response to ARI

Posted on October 31, 2020November 3, 2020 by Carl Barney

I recently wrote an article, The Truth about Craig Biddle vs. Smears by Some at ARI. Rather than respond to the article, ARI issued a statement attacking it as “riddled with errors and distortions.” What errors and distortions? They don’t say. Surely they could have spent a few minutes out of respect for readers to…

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