Nathaniel Branden sent the following message to members of his announcement list:

It is my great pleasure to introduce to you a man and a program of stunning originality and practical results. The man is Jon Butcher and his program is Lifebook.

Lifebook launches you into its world by inviting you to deeply examine 12 separate aspects of your life ( Read more... )

I wrote the following in response to a friends-only post on LiveJournal, in which a Rand-admiring friend in academia claims Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism offers no worldly advantage. For example, if you look at leaders in various fields of human endeavor, Objectivism is no more represented among those people than in the general population.

A ( Read more... )

I received the following today from an Atlasphere member. Our form for removing yourself from the member database asks for a reason for the removal and, inside that form, he wrote:

You are associated with the Brandens, and novelist Erika Holzer, who do not represent Objectivism and have morally betrayed it’s creator. Out of respect for Ayn Rand and ( Read more... )

The allusions to Atlas Shrugged in the mainstream media are just getting better and better. From the new Bloomberg article “Obama Needs AIG’s Liddy, Not Other Way Around,” by Caroline Baum:

The hero of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is smiling because he’s seen it all before: the government’s intervention in the private sector; the constraints placed ( Read more... )

Check out the new Mudita Forum, if you think you might be interested.

The purpose of Mudita Forum is to provide a stimulating, thoughtful environment for discussing Eastern consciousness-raising practices - such as meditation, mindfulness, and the cultivation of presence - while using Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism as a basic philosophical ( Read more... )

Happy holidays, everyone.

The holidays can be an awkward time, sometimes, figuring out what to do for whom. But once in a while you see someone hit the ball so far out of the park, you remember why it’s worth trying in the first place.

On that note, Los Angeles composer Mike Shapiro just made my evening by sending out this little ditty, which he ( Read more... )

Here is a point I’ve been meaning to make publicly to other Objectivists for many years. I posted this as a comment on John Enright’s post.

Ayn Rand called Galt’s Gulch a “utopia of greed” in Atlas Shrugged, but I think that was one of her tactical mistakes; greed happens all the time and it’s not a good thing.

It seems to me that a valid ( Read more... )

I’ve become very intrigued lately by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s concept of “conscious capitalism” (link to PDF essay).

A few days ago, Justin Fox from Time Magazine published a lengthy interview with Mackey and his college housemate Kip Tindell - who, as it happens, is the CEO of the Container Store, which is similarly prosperous and also run by ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from the Atlasphere’s Ayn Rand meta-blog.)

Inside Higher Ed Editor Scott Jaschik kindly sent a link to his new story “Buying a Spot on the Syllabus,” which is indeed very interesting. He begins:

Some professors at Marshall University believe that the institution has crossed an ethical line by accepting a gift that requires that a ( Read more... )

If you’re hungry for information about the coming Atlas Shrugged movie (how much was it delayed by the writers strike? how firmly committed is Angelina?) don’t miss the new interview with John Aglialoro at the Atlasphere.

Originally published at Mudita Journal. Please leave any comments there.