Was Ayn Rand Right About Western Civilization?
Originally published at picoultraorientalis.com. Back to the Foundations of Morality In a time of escalating crises, reflections on the foundations of human action and…
Thirteen good reasons why Ayn Rand’s works are…
Posted on April 18, 2023 “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Today, even as the clocks…
Libertarianism And Its Cultured Despisers
Posted by nouspraktikon on February 18, 2023 A review of D.C. Schindler, Freedom from Reality The diabolical character of modern liberty University of Notre…
MATERIALISM AS THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF TOTALITARIANISM, DEMONSTRATED…
Choose your world, choose your regime By Mark Sunwall, 10/7/22 Is the universe comprised of souls or composed of matter? If you consider that…
From Eternity to here: A brief note on…
Posted on May 29, 2022 Before there was Post-modernism there was Modernism…and it was already too late There is a general feeling among non-mainstream…
Ayn Rand as a Simplified Scheler?
A salesperson for philosophy Professional philosophers usually get embarrassed when the name Ayn Rand comes up. Yes, she was a better writer than a…
If The Whole World Celebrated Chanukah, The World…
In these unsettled times the light of Chanukah has shinned on those who have observed it, and even more brightly on those who understand…
Did Kantianism Destroy Civilization?
Rounding up an unusual suspect In the general malaise and recrimination of present America, it is clear that much of what was once called…
The Purity of Averroes’ Common Intellect Vs. Today’s…
No truth without one intellect in common Contrary to the radical relativism, individualism, and tribalism of today, the best minds of the past taught…
Real God, Fake Churches: Jacques Ellul is Laughing…
The great church cave-in…was It is tempting to see the church lockdown as some new thing challenging the unchallengable…the sovereignty of God. Actually it…
Flesh Gordon, or why the crises are different…
Elite Panic It seems we have entered into a new age. I doubt that the present “health crisis” should be taken as its onset,…
Can Mises’ Praxiology be Considered a Special Case…
The thin ethics of libertarianism: In search of a solution Daniel Ajamian has recently restated Murray Rothbard’s philosophical foundation for libertarian ethics. As all…
Why do we Love? vs. Why Should we…
The answer is determined by our initial question When our conversations comes around to love, sometimes it’s “Why do we?” and sometimes it’s “Why…