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Craig Biddle

I write and lecture on philosophical and political issues from an Objectivist perspective, and I edit The Objective Standard, a quarterly journal of culture and politics written from that same perspective.

Objectivism, the philosophy created by Ayn Rand, holds that reality is absolute (facts are facts and cannot be wished into or out of existence), that reason is man’s only means of knowledge (neither faith nor feelings can deliver truth), that man possesses free will and thus chooses his character (as against being determined by innate urges or social forces), that the essence of being moral is acting in one’s rational self-interest (contra altruism, hedonism, and predation), that the principle of individual rights (recognition of the fact that each individual has a moral right to act on his own judgment for his own sake) is the moral foundation of a free society, and that laissez-faire capitalism (the social system of individual rights) is the only moral social system.

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. For information on my books, courses, lectures, and articles, click on the navigation bar above.