For the New Intellectual

"I swear - by my life and my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." There is a quality in Ayn Rand's writing that I find supremely attractive: the unflinching, unapologetic assertion of the sanctity of the individual human mind and tha......more

A great explication of Ayn's philosophy, and the primary reason I think she's an idiot.......more

I read this book during guard duty in the army. It was a perfect fit. A few years ago, I got into a discussion with a bookstore keeper about Marxism and capitalism. He pretty much told me I have to read Ayn Rand and so here we are. As I've grown up, my opinions have mellowed out. I do think Marxism......more

Good philosophy is usually recognizable, and awakens a desire to understand it more deeply. Bad philosophy inevitably has something fishy about it, but it is not often easy to articulate where the smell is coming from. And then who really wants to get closer? Often, I suppose, the badness has to do......more

I have tried REALLY hard to understand and respect the philosophy of Ayn Rand, but it’s difficult. I really don’t like throwing this world around, but at certain points while reading her books, I think, “Is she a sociopath?”. If I’m being generous, Ayn Rand makes good arguments that being a pure alt......more