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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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Introduction to the Fall 2013 issue of The Objective Standard
August 18, 2013
Below is my introduction to the Fall issue of TOS, which has been mailed and will be posted to our website this Tuesday. If you’ve not yet subscribed to the journal for people of reason, subscribe now for a mere 8¢ per day. Satisfaction is guaranteed. —CB * * *…
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George Will: A Conservative “None” in Need of Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights
, August 17, 2013
In his recent National Affairs essay, “Religion and the American Public,” George Will writes: “I approach the question of religion and American life from the vantage point of an expanding minority,” namely, Americans with no religious affiliation, “a cohort that the Pew public-opinion surveys call the ‘nones.’” Will’s essay is…
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The Virtue of Honesty
August 14, 2013
Author’s note: The following is a section on the virtue of honesty from chapter 6 of my book Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Richmond: Glen Allen Press, 2002). The book is an introduction to Ayn Rand’s morality of rational egoism. Honesty “is the…
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Help TOS Fight for the Future
July 28, 2013
Dear Friend of TOS, I’m writing to ask for your support in fighting for your values. As you probably know, TOS has become much more than a quarterly journal. While our quarterly is still the anchor of our offerings, we now have a highly active blog, a rapidly expanding YouTube…

Interview with Artist Ifat Glassman
May 20, 2013
Ifat Glassman discusses her artwork, her atelier education, and her plans for the future. The interview is accompanied by images of several of her artworks.

The Is-Altruism Dichotomy
May 20, 2013
Shows why, even after Ayn Rand created a complete morality based exclusively on observation and logic, many people persist in believing that moral principles cannot be derived from the facts of reality.

From the Editor, Summer 2013
May 20, 2013
Craig Biddle introduces the Summer 2013 issue.
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Portrait of Joshua Lipana, by Bryan Larsen
April 30, 2013
As Ayn Rand observed, “There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days—the conviction that ideas matter . . . that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one’s mind matters.” Joshua Lipana was…
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Joshua Lipana Fought Until He Could Fight No More
April 22, 2013
My dear friend, and assistant editor of this blog, Joshua Lipana died this morning after a heroic, nine-month battle against cancer. To know Joshua was to love him. To know him well, as I did, was to love him like another self. Joshua loved life with a contagious passion. He…
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Update on Joshua Lipana
April 21, 2013
I spoke with Joshua yesterday, and there is some good news. He has had three sessions of chemotherapy in the past several days, and his doctors say the treatments have killed a substantial amount of the leukemia. They are, however, concerned that a lot of the cancer is still “hiding”…
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Why Capitalism is Moral
April 19, 2013
In the latest episode of Reason at Large, I answer a question from Jason: "You've written and spoken at length about why capitalism is the only moral social system, and I find your arguments very convincing. But in daily conversations with people, I don't have an hour to make the…

Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson—and Thank You for Your Moral Endurance
April 13, 2013
In honor of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, here’s a subtle yet powerful tribute to him (and men of his kind) from Ayn Rand: In Atlas Shrugged, I discussed the “pyramid of ability” in the realm of economics. There is another kind of social pyramid. The genius who fights “every form of…
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Why "Sacrifice" Means Loss, Not Gain
April 6, 2013
In this episode of Reason at Large, I address the question "Why do you use 'sacrifice' to mean giving up a greater value for a lesser value, when the widely accepted meaning of that term is the opposite: giving up a lesser value for the sake of a greater value?"…
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Joshua Lipana’s Cancer Has Relapsed and He Needs Our Help
March 28, 2013
I am devastated to report that Joshua Lipana’s lymphoma has returned. (If you’re new to Joshua’s situation, see my earlier posts here, here, here, here, and here.) Although just two months ago CT scans showed remarkable improvements and indicated that Joshua’s cancer was in remission, a recent bone marrow biopsy…

From the Editor, Spring 2013
February 20, 2013
Craig Biddle introduces the Spring 2013 issue.
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