This new quarterly journal of culture and politics works from the premise that “for every human concern ... there are demonstrably objective standards by reference to which we can assess what is true ...

This post is about an absurd philosophy that got sold to the world of business and government, creating a world of havoc in the United States. The philosophy, called "Objectivism," came from the hack ...

“The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,” Paul Ryan said in 2009. “And the fight we are in here, make no mistake ...

Though the stories are out in force now that he is the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, I could already tell that Paul Ryan was an admirer of Objectivism (though recently renounced). After all, his ...

More than four decades after her death, the author of the popular novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead is still one of the most divisive public intellectuals. On one hand, her position of ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.35.2.0165 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jspecphil.35.2.0165 Copy URL Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral ...

In his final blog, Onkar Ghate asks where do the attractions of Objectivism lie, and what does it re By Onkar Ghate I first picked up Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged in high school and was, like many ...

While I won’t tie my moral code to religion, it’s eye-opening to see the merits of a religious belief and to hold more respect for the ideology of religious individuals. There are two main reasons I ...

The expression “lies, damned lies, and statistics” has long served as a pointed reminder of the risks associated with manipulating or misusing statistical information. To underscore the severity of ...