Philosophy

Ayn Rand Center Europe invited me and and Craig Biddle to Belgrade to debate whether Objectivism is an open or closed philosophy. I argued for open and Mr. Biddle argued for closed. The following recording of the debate does not show the slides I used with quotations and other materials, so I am posting my

The character Gail Wynand pursues a use-and-be-used career strategy. Wynand uses strong-arm tactics when necessary in building up his newspaper’s market; he manipulates his employees with money to break their integrity; he fires those (like Dominique) who refuse to bend; and he lets the lowest-common-denominator of public taste dictate the content of the newspaper he

An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series

Ayn Rand was a philosopher and an artist, and she carefully distinguished the status of works that are discoveries from those that are creations: “A scientific or philosophical discovery, which identifies a law of nature, a principle or a fact of reality not previously known, cannot be the exclusive property of the discoverer because (a)