Craig Biddle's Articles
Announcements, Economics
Richard M. Salsman’s The Political Economy of Public Debt Is Now Available
Craig Biddle April 5, 2017
Richard M. Salsman’s book The Political Economy of Public Debt: Three Centuries of Theory and Evidence has been published and is available through Amazon.com.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism
Adam Smith Institute’s Eamonn Butler Extols Ayn Rand
Craig Biddle April 5, 2017
Three cheers to Dr. Butler and the Adam Smith Institute for writing and publishing an important article on Ayn Rand and her ideas.
Philosophy
A Challenge to Dennis Prager about Secular Morality
Craig Biddle April 5, 2017
Craig Biddle offers Dennis Prager $10,000 to debate whether secular objective morality exists—or whether objective morality depends on God.
Philosophy
Secular, Objective Morality: Look and See
Craig Biddle April 3, 2017
Objective morality comes not from revelation, faith, or divine commandments—but from observation, logic, and the laws of nature.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Education & Parenting
Ayn Rand Included on A-Level Curriculum in UK
Craig Biddle March 28, 2017
The 2017 curriculum for A-Level Politics, taught in secondary and pre-university schools in the UK, will include Ayn Rand and her ideas.
Philosophy
Dennis Prager’s Faith Meets Jihad in the Name of “God”
Craig Biddle March 22, 2017
As Dennis Prager again insists that if there is no God, anything goes, another jihadist commits mass murder in the name of God. The irony...
Science & Technology
Bill Nye’s Golden Opportunity to Crush the Fossil Fuel Industry
Craig Biddle March 13, 2017
For Bill Nye to beat Alex Epstein in a public debate about the morality of fossil fuels would be a huge coup for opponents of fossil fuels.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism
A Graphic Novel based on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
Craig Biddle March 9, 2017
Bosch Fawstin and Amy Peikoff are co-authoring a three-part graphic novel based on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
Politics & Rights
The Vital Function of the Left-Right Political Spectrum
Craig Biddle March 8, 2017
The idea that the entire left-right political spectrum is statist is not merely wrong; it is disastrously wrong.
Announcements
The Spring 2017 Issue of TOS
Craig Biddle February 23, 2017
The Spring issue of TOS features articles on Alexander Hamilton, Ayn Rand vs Nietzsche, capitalism and science, Jim Brown's vision for ARI...
Announcements
From the Editor, Spring 2017
Craig Biddle February 21, 2017
Welcome to the Spring 2017 issue of The Objective Standard. This issue begins our twelfth year of publication and marks a new era in the Objectivist movement.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism
CEO Jim Brown’s Vision for the Ayn Rand Institute
Craig Biddle February 20, 2017
Jim Brown, the new CEO of the Ayn Rand Institute, discusses his vision for the organization, and his aim to build a healthy, cohesive Objectivist community.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism
Why Treat Yourself to Something Special on Randsday?
Craig Biddle February 2, 2017
If, as Ayn Rand held, selfishness is a virtue, shouldn’t you be selfish every day? Why do something special or extraordinary on Randsday?
Economics, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Capitalism Because Science
Craig Biddle January 26, 2017
Examines capitalism and statism in the light of several sciences, and shows capitalism to be the only social system supported by science.
History, Politics & Rights
Netanyahu Reads Nothing Less than Victory
Craig Biddle January 7, 2017
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been reading John David Lewis’s Nothing Less than Victory. This is exceedingly good news.