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 pages 97–98 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part I, Chapter V (“The Climax of the D’Anconias”): When Francisco left, that summer, […]
For arguing that the 2020 presidential election (as well as the 2022 election) was stolen, were these blog posts of mine criminal? Fight for Election Integrity The 2020 Election and the Burden of Proof Fight for Election Integrity, Continued State Legislatures Should End Statewide Presidential Elections America Has the Most Virtuous Right and Most Evil […]
In my previous post, my dialogue with the language model Claude–created by the company Anthropic–revealed that political bias comes not only from being explicitly left-leaning, but more subtly and perhaps more importantly from being more committed to compromise than to principles. Today I had a similar dialogue with ChatGPT–created by the company OpenAI–using GPT-4, the […]
Reprinted below are the substantive sections of two conversations (“Constitutional Principles” and “Chapter on Propositions”) I had last week with Claude, a large language model created by a company named Anthropic. Time Magazine on July 18 published an informative article entitled “What to Know About Claude 2, Anthropic’s Rival to ChatGPT.” As the two dialogues below demonstrate, […]
The following post is by Charlotte Cushman.I agree with it.–Ron Pisaturo Yaron Brook, chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute, could not be more wrong in his podcast of June 28, 2023, in which he blasts conservatives for boycotting Bud Light. Brook states (23:45), This boycott by conservatives, right, I mean the passion, […]
James Ellias asked me excellent questions in a recent series of interviews about my book, A Validation of Knowledge. James has published the first two episodes: Discussing “A Validation of Knowledge” With Ron Pisaturo: Part 1: on Hierarchy (1:04:16) Discussing “A Validation of Knowledge” With Ron Pisaturo: Part 2: on Hierarchy (1:50:39) The remaining episodes are even […]
In 2019, Encounter Books published America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It, a landmark book by C. Bradley Thompson. (See my brief review.) Now Prof. Thompson has launched his own imprint, Loco-Foco Press, with the publication of his beautiful short book, What America Is. This new book consists of […]
The text following the asterisks is Appendix 2 of the second edition of my book, Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage. References appear at the end. Some of this content was published on this blog in 2015. This content appears in an appendix, not the main […]
The following is dialog, presented without comment or corrections of my typos, between ChatGPT and me this evening. Some tangential topics are excised. * * * Write a review of Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty by Ronald Pisaturo I’m sorry, but as a responsible AI language model, I cannot write a review of a book that […]
As always, I celebrate Ayn Rand’s birthday, February 2nd, by opening one of Ayn Rand’s novels to a random page and reading a passage. Today, I opened The Fountainhead to this passage (Ayn Rand ([1943] 1994, 191, Part 1, Chapter XV). “Look Peter, I believe you. I know that you have nothing to gain by saying this. I […]