I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day (September 2) each year by opening to a random page of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, on page 362 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part II, Chapter I (“The Man Who Belonged on Earth”): The young boy from […]
I posted this message on Facebook in August 2018 and again in August 2019. The message is especially important in 2020, with civilization under assault. Are you an artist who loves beauty, not ugliness; virtues, not flaws; heroes, not mediocrities; integrity, not contradictions; clarity, not ambiguity; aspiration, not futility; romance, not promiscuity; eloquence, not vulgarity; […]
In a recent article in American Thinker, my good friend Charlotte Cushman writes, Choosing popularity instead of reality leads to the mob mentality we are seeing today. The educational approach that is used in schools is highly influential in the choice the child makes. Much has been written to explain how “progressive education” indoctrinates children […]
Thanks to a reader, I have discovered that my new online bookstore serves only the U.S. and Canada. I made the unwarranted assumption that a bookstore platform run by the leading worldwide distributor of printed books (Ingram) would be international. I apologize for inconveniencing my international readers. Various international Amazon sites are now or soon […]
I am pleased to announce the self-publication of my book, A Validation of Knowledge: A New, Objective Theory of Axioms, Causality, Meaning, Propositions, Mathematics, and Induction. The book is the realization of my life’s work in epistemology. The ebook, as a PDF file, is available for purchase from my online bookstore for $5. (Update, 10/17/2020: […]
The intrepid Heather Mac Donald, in this excellent short article, reminds us of facts that everyone knows at least approximately: Facts don’t matter to the academic victimology narrative. Far from destroying the black body, whites are the overwhelming target of interracial violence. Between 2012 and 2015, blacks committed 85.5 percent of all black-white interracial violent […]
First, I am nearly done with my book on epistemology, which has been nearly thirty years in the making. An advance copy is now being read by colleagues. Here is a draft of the cover. While colleagues have been reading, I have sought an alternative to in-person performances of my one-man show, which have been […]
“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” American politicians and bureaucrats at all levels of government have fallen to the level of socialism, with the FDA blocking creators, with the monopolistic CDC bungling what creators would otherwise do well, with administrators of socialized medicine producing […]
The best article I have read on the COVID-19 pandemic is An Epistemic Crisis, by Jeffrey A. Tucker, on the website of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), an eminent pro-freedom think tank. This article, however, is not merely economic; it is primarily epistemological, as its title suggests. I wish I could quote the […]
As is my custom, I celebrate the birthday of Ayn Rand by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading. Here is something I read today, from The Fountainhead, Part Three, Chapter 5: “I often think that he’s the only one of us who’s achieved immortality. I don’t mean in the sense of […]