Category: Philosophy
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the December 16, 2010 edition of The Objectivist round up! It is customary for the host to put up a short epigraph at the beginning of each carnival, usually a quote from Ayn Rand. Permit me to break tradition, but this week’s quote is from Avicenna: Anyone who denies the Law of Non-Contradiction…
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Shamenorming
by Jason Stotts I recently had a conversation with someone who argued that slut shaming was dead and that it didn’t happen anymore. I haven’t heard such a naive and fanciful position since religion. For those who have any doubts, here are two very sad stories of slut-shaming. These are certainly not outliers, but just…
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Major Setback for Obamacare
by Jason Stotts In case you somehow missed the news, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled that individual insurance mandate of Obamacare unconstitutional. While this puts us down 2-1 for federal cases on Obamacare, hopefully it will be overturned by the Supreme Court as the clear violation of rights that it is. (NYTimes, Bloomberg)…
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TSA Encourages Child Molestation
by Jason Stotts One overlooked problem, among oh so many, with the TSA new “protect via sexual assault” policy is that it will encourage child molestation. An article on Raw Story (I’m not actually familiar with this website) quotes child abuse expert Ken Wooden on the dangers of the new TSA policy: Telling a child…
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Stuxnet
by Jason Stotts In case you haven’t heard about it yet, you should definitely check out this news article on FoxNews about the computer virus stuxnet, which has all but crippled Iran’s nuclear program. Simply put, Stuxnet is an incredibly advanced, undetectable computer worm that took years to construct and was designed to jump from…
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Global Warming Continues to Fall From Grace
by Jason Stotts In yet another heavy blow to the AGW camp, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has announced that it is closing it’s doors. According to the National Review Online: Global warming-inspired cap and trade has been one of the most stridently debated public policy controversies of the past 15 years. But it is…
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More on the Newest Schism
by Jason Stotts Craig Biddle, of The Objective Standard, has now weighed in on Peikoff v. McCaskey in his letter “Justice for John P. McCaskey” published today on his personal website. In it, he defends McCaskey and points out that Peikoff is apparently baseless in his attack on McCaskey and, thus, should be condemned for arbitrarily condemning…
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Who’s Actually Getting Read in Objectivism
by Jason Stotts Danielle Morrill has just put up a list of the top 27 blogs being read in Objectivism up on her blog. Although Erosophia is not listed, in August I had 1,584 visitors, putting me in the top 25 blogs! Since I’ve been blogging since May of 2005, this also makes Erosophia one…