The Objective Standard: Summer 2023, Vol. 18, No. 2

by Craig Biddle, Jon Hersey

The Summer 2023 issue (Vol. 18, No. 2) features the following articles, shorts, and Today’s Seductive and Destructive Language (A Study of Package-Deals and Anti-Concepts)Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and the Philosophic Foundation for FreedomThe Ethics of BeliefSchools Foment Shootings by Undermining Self-EsteemBrits Should Reject Monarchy and Embrace RightsLiving for An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily A. AustinThe Stasi Poetry The Creative Writing Class That Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip OltermannThe Case for How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future by Robert ZubrinHow to Read a The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van DorenWhat’s Love Got to Do With It? Directed by Shekhar Kapur

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Published June 8, 2023

About the author

Craig Biddle writes and lectures on philosophical and political issues from an Objectivist perspective, Objectivism being the philosophy created by Ayn Rand. Craig also edits The Objective Standard, a quarterly journal of culture and politics. His first book, Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It, is a highly concretized, systematic introduction to Ayn Rand's ethics.

The book in progress is an introduction to the principles of good thinking and the fallacies that are violations of those principles. He has lectured and taught seminars at universities across the country, including Stanford, Duke, Tufts, UVA, UCLA, UM–Wisconsin, and NYU. Also lecture regularly at Objectivist conferences.

For a brief elaboration on the nature of Objectivism, see my essay “Introducing The Objective Standard” or Leonard Peikoff’s essay “The Philosophy of Objectivism: A Brief Summary.” To learn more about the philosophy, I suggest beginning with Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged.