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About Craig Biddle

About Craig Biddle

Craig is cofounder and editor of The Objective Standard, cofounder and director of education at Objective Standard Institute, and executive director of Prometheus Foundation. He is the author of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It; Rational Egoism: The Morality for Human Flourishing; and the forthcoming Moral Truths Your Parents, Preachers, and Teachers Don’t Want You to Know. He is currently working on his fourth book, “Thinking in Principles.”

Craig Biddle's Articles

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Altruism: The Fuel of Jihad
June 24, 2014
In “Terrorism, Altruism, and Moral Certainty,” the Afterward to my book Loving Life, I explain that “Islamic terrorists are religious altruists: They selflessly commit human sacrifices for the sake of a supernatural ‘other’—an alleged God.” A Muslim professor at the Islamic University in Gaza recently acknowledged this too.

Rand’s Ethics and Say’s Law
June 2, 2014
Whereas rational ethics holds that if you want the values on which your life and happiness depend, you must take the actions necessary to gain and keep those values; rational economics holds that if you want to trade value for value in the marketplace, you must first produce value with which to trade.
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A Report on the “Liberty, Free Markets, and Moral Character” Conference
May 28, 2014
I just returned from a four-day, sixty-student conference on “Liberty, Free Markets, and Moral Character,” co-sponsored by the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism (CISC) and the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), and I want to report on the immense value of this event.

On Memorial Day, Let’s Lift Our Heads and Speak
May 26, 2014
Free, rights-respecting, self-interested, rational men and nations go to war only when they are attacked or threatened with aggression—and then only to defend their freedom so that they can return to peaceful, normal, prosperous living. On Memorial Day, rather than just bow our heads in silence, let’s also raise our heads and speak these vital truths.
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Purpose, Value Hierarchies, and Happiness
May 20, 2014
Zeros in on the nature and importance of purpose in good living, discusses how to organize and prioritize your values and goals with respect to their relative importance to your life and happiness, and offers tips and standing orders for making your life the best it can be.
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From the Editor, Summer 2014
May 20, 2014
Craig Biddle introduces the Summer 2014 issue of The Objective Standard.

Ayn Rand’s Philosophy, the Laws of Nature, and a Gay Jamaican
May 4, 2014
Philosophy professor Jason D. Hill has written a beautiful article, “Jamaican, Gay and Ayn Rand Made it OK,” about how Rand’s books and philosophy helped him to think clearly about his life and his sexual orientation, and to pursue his goals and happiness with passion and pride.
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TOS’s New Website
April 23, 2014
I'm delighted to announce the launch of TOS’s new website. Our staff and developers have worked hard toward making the site easy to navigate and a pleasure to use. I hope you find it so. A number of tasks and improvements remain to be done, and we will be working on these over the next few weeks.
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A Peek at Thinking in Principles: The Science of Selfishness
February 21, 2014
Discusses the nature of principles, surveys various kinds of principles, draws crucial definitions of “principle” from the survey, and shows the vital role of principles in thinking.

From the Editor, Spring 2014
February 21, 2014
Craig Biddle introduces the Spring 2014 issue.

Liberty, Free Markets, and Moral Character—An Important Conference for College Students
February 20, 2014
May 22–25, I’ll be speaking at “Liberty, Free Markets, and Moral Character” along with Andrew Bernstein, Brad Thompson, and several libertarian speakers. The conference is for students between 18 and 24 years old; the deadline for applications is March 8.

Jonathan Hoenig’s Pit Trading 101: Fuel for The Capitalist Soul
February 19, 2014
Jonathan Hoenig’s new film, Pit Trading 101, is a fascinating and inspiring look at a small group of highly ambitious capitalists who attended the University of Trading in the 1990s and went on to trade in the commodities pits of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where they allocated huge amounts of capital via split-second decision making.

Who Is Ayn Rand?
February 5, 2014
A brief biography of Ayn Rand (1905–1982), an American novelist and philosopher and the creator of Objectivism, which she called "a philosophy for living on earth."

What Is Objectivism?
February 5, 2014
Explains how the philosophy of Objectivism is derived from the observable facts of reality and the demonstrable requirements of human life and happiness.
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Duck Quacks Don’t Echo: A Fun New Show About Scientific Facts
January 22, 2014
“The show that proves unusual scientific facts in the most hilarious ways.” That’s the billing for the delightful new television show Duck Quacks Don’t Echo, co-hosted by Tom Papa, Michael Ian Black, and Seth Herzog. Duck Quacks premiered January 13 on National Geographic Channel, where two half-hour episodes air back…
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