... that evangelical Christians especially need to understand hermeneutics, because of their intractable legacy of naive objectivism (their own kind of "dogmatic slumber" at la Kant) and their ... quot; and if that now be called a postmodern problem, I welcome it. " Naive Objectivism .... that is us alright. I've wrestled with it all my life, I beginning to understand it only now.

Having written for a business magazine and with a background that includes business school (though in my defense, I mostly studied statistics and social science), I just have to indulge my guilty pleasure of taking on a business topic once in a while. Last time, it was Megan McArdle’s attempt to defend banks from their share of the blame for selling exotic financial products with wild abandon. ...

 2009.11.02 Roanoke RoundTable Pity Ayn RandThere's a fascinating piece up at Slate.com about Ayn Rand. It superficially is about two recent biographies of the author of "The Fountainhead," "Atlas Shrugged" and other works. In reality, it's about the writer herself, how she came to her beliefs and the people who subscribe to them. Most people who get suckered into ...

Reading this again solidified my notion that Rand was a raving lunatic and that objectivism is sociopathy written into a mad person's political philosophy. I mean, shit, man. How depraved and cold-hearted can a person possibly be? You keep seeing signs begging to know what happened to John Galt. John Galt was a megalomaniac through which Rand asserted that all of the underprivileged deserve ...

In one of Reason magazine's many retrospectives on Ayn Rand, Shikha Dalmia neatly summarizes a major problem in Objectivist ethics: This has profound and unfortunate political consequences. On the practical level, it makes it difficult to build a strong and growing anti-government movement based solely on Rand's philosophy, because the older cohort of her followers is falling off on a ...

Marina Hyde shares Jordan's boyfriend's words of wisdom Offered without comment is the latest pensee from Jordan's gentleman caller, Alex Reid, culled from the Sunday Mirror's interview with the polymath cage fighter. "We're both very bright," he declares of himself and milady. "That's another thing we have in common. I'm really into self-improvement, ...