The title of this post states the theme in a positive light. To state the matter another way, most conservatives have better ideas than most Objectivists on numerous important cultural and political issues. In this post, I limit my discussion to six issues, listed in order of importance, that I have already written about. To […]
Arshak Benlian (@ArshakBenlian), host of The One in the Many podcast, has now conducted two interviews of me on my book, Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage. Last month, I posted a link to the podcast of the first interview. Now, embedded below, are videos of both interviews. The […]
I am a long-time student of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, and I draw more heavily from that philosophy, by far, than any other for my own philosophy. Indeed, the present essay draws heavily on the ethics and politics of Objectivism. Nevertheless, I have come to disagree with Ayn Rand on the subject of abortion. […]
In August 2022, I published a blog post entitled “America Has the Most Virtuous Right and Most Evil Left.” Last week’s conviction of former President Trump provides more proof of the evil of the American Left, this time manifest in the form of further disdain for the rule of law—on the heels of repeated obstruction […]
Arshak Benlian (@ArshakBenlian), host of The One in the Many podcast, has conducted the first interview of me on my book, Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage. The interview focuses on the book’s first and most important chapter, “Heterosexuality in Romantic Love.” Next week, we will […]
A gold bar is a partially-completed future product that objectively will enhance human life.Sound banking is neither centralized nor a collectivist consensus, but rather individualist. For roughly two decades straddling the last turn of the century, the so-called “Doomsday Argument” was hotly debated in peer-reviewed journals of philosophy—until my 2009 article in Philosophy of Science, […]
Please see this link for a dialogue with ChatGPT—an astounding engineering achievement—on a logical fallacy I have named the “Morning Star Fallacy”: derived from the error of thinking that the morning star and the evening star are two distinct entities, whereas in fact they are the same entity (the planet Venus) at different stages of […]
To understand a good man, it is more important to know the good he is for than the evil he is against. To understand an evil man, it is more important to know the good he is against than the evil he is for. For example, it is more important to know about a good […]
In November, I posted one of the short essays I wrote last February in application to a program at the University of Austin. Now I post my other short essay. I did not save the exact wording of the question, but the question was a variant of the famous question posed by Peter Thiel at […]
As always, I celebrate Ayn Rand’s birthday, February 2nd, by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading a passage. Here is one of the passages, from The Fountainhead, that I read today (Part 2, Chapter VI). “And, my dear,” asked Kiki Holcombe, “what did you think of that new one, you know, I […]