Category: Philosophy

  • Objectivist Blog Carnival

    Welcome to the December 15, 2011 edition of the Objectivist Round Up. Today’s quote is Ayn Rand’s response to whether an atheist should celebrate christmas: Yes, of course. A national holiday, in this country, cannot have an exclusively religious meaning. The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday is wider than the tenets of any particular…

  • SoCal Objectivists Shooting Range Trip

    by Jason Stotts The SoCal Objectivists are heading to the shooting range on Sunday night.  We’re meeting at the LA Gun Club at 7:30 where we’ll be getting a couple of lanes and killing some paper zombies.  We’ll be there until around 9 or so, when we’ll retire to a nearby bar or restaurant for…

  • ARI Internships

    by Jason Stotts The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) announced their 2012 summer internships today: The Ayn Rand Institute is now accepting applications for its 2012 summer internship program! This unique three-week program is aimed at college undergraduates new to Ayn Rand’s novels, philosophy and the debate surrounding them, and combines an educational curriculum on these…

  • Stolen Paternity

    by Jason Stotts This is one of those stories that makes you feel like you’re reading fiction: not just any fiction, but fiction by an author who is very clever and original.  At least, I wish it were fiction.  For the most part it’s a rather common story: boy meets girl, boy and girl have…

  • Objectivist Thanksgiving Carnival

    Welcome to the November 24, 2011 edition of the Objectivist Round Up. When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of a time when family and friends get together to appreciate the good things in the last year and to enjoy the value of good company and good food. Thanksgiving is a holiday when we can…

  • Objectivist Blog Traffic

    by Jason Stotts In an effort to understand what kind of reach we Objectivist bloggers are having, I reached out to the OBloggers community and asked them to submit their overall page views for the month of October.  In order to get an idea of how these numbers stacked up, I also added in some…

  • Objectivist Blog Traffic

    by Jason Stotts I’m going to be compiling a list of the more prominent Objectivist blogs and websites and their overall traffic counts for the month of October to see what our internet reach is and how many people we’re actually getting our message out to. If you want to be included in the post,…

  • The Importance of Sexual Satisfaction

    by Jason Stotts When pollution gets into a system, it can be hard to identify how far reaching its poisons will go and what sort of damage it will cause.  Such is the cause with the man-hating philosophy of christianity.  The damage it has caused throughout human history is incalculable and its effects are far…