Category: Objectivism

I confess, when I first read Objectivism, I was rationalistic and somewhat ultracrepidarian. Okay, I know: “ultracrepidarian” has seven syllables and is a tongue-twister. But if you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, you can say ul tra crep i dar i an; and it’s the only word that really fits. It means: one who expresses opinions, criticism,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

(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…

(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…

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…

Craig Biddle is an accomplished, highly productive, Objectivist intellectual who has dedicated the last 25 years to advancing Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. He has done it well. He is cofounder and editor of The Objective Standard, a vital source for commentary from an Objectivist perspective, now in its 15th year of publication. He is…

Ayn Rand’s writings and philosophy are a symphony of reason and inspiration.  For example, in responding to a fan in 1960 about the meaning of life, she wrote: “Joy, exultation, beauty, greatness, heroism, all of the supreme, uplifting values of man’s existence on Earth, are the meaning of life.” In the afterword to Atlas Shrugged,…