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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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How to Solve America's Terrorism Problem in 5 Easy Steps
August 31, 2006
[caption id="attachment_7131" align="alignright" width="261"] 911[/caption] Here is how America could solve her terrorism problem in 5 easy steps: Stop sacrificing American soldiers to bring "freedom" to savages in Iraq. Pull our soldiers out of that hellhole, and let the savages have their civil war. (Iraq is not and never was…

From the Editor, Fall 2006
August 20, 2006
Craig Biddle introduces the Fall 2006 issue.
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Hezbollah Murders 56 Lebanese, Including 34 Children
July 31, 2006
When the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 people, those people were murdered by imperial Japan. Likewise, when Israel bombs a Hezbollah-infested village in Lebanon, killing 56 people, those people are murdered by Hezbollah. In circumstances such as these, there is a difference between the…
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Reason Delivers Again
July 16, 2006
Here are two welcome reports from Medical News Today: Blood Test Predicts Detects Lung Cancer Years Before CT Scan 16 Jul 2006 A new blood test is able to correctly predict non-small-cell lung cancer in patients years before any CT scan can detect it, say researchers from the University of…
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Writing Opportunity for Objectivists
July 16, 2006
If you are an Objectivist blogger or writer, here is a good opportunity to write for a college audience. Dear Objectivist blogger and Ayn Rand fan, The Undercurrent, a national Objectivist campus publication, is now accepting submissions for its back-to-school issue, due to hit the presses in the first week…
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The Taliban Can… Because We Let Them
July 12, 2006
Our primary target after 9-11 should not have been the Taliban in Afghanistan; it should have been the regime in Iran. But if we were going to pursue the Taliban, we certainly should have eliminated these vile creatures swiftly and permanently. In order to have done so, however, our military…
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It's Religion and Altruism, Stupid: Take Two
June 27, 2006
Here is another good piece by Diana West, in which she correctly notes that If we still valued our own men more than the enemy's and the "civilians" he hides among—and now I'm talking about the war in Iraq—our tactics would be totally different, and, not incidentally, infinitely more successful.…
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Of Mice and Men
June 22, 2006
More excellent news about stem cell research, this time from John's Hopkins University: Stem cells taken from mouse embryos have helped paralyzed rats move again, U.S. researchers said on Monday. The study was the best evidence so far that controversial embryonic stem cells might be used to treat people with…
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It's Religion and Altruism, Stupid
June 20, 2006
In an article titled "It's an Islamic jihad, stupid," Diana West wonders why the Bush administration "keep[s] things vague and indirect," pursuing a "war on terror" rather than a war on "Islamic jihadists." Ms. West notes that without understanding the religious nature of jihad (holy war), along with its sister…
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Altruism: The Morality of Suffering and Death (Exhibit 347R: Organ Donation)
June 13, 2006
The widespread acceptance of altruism (the fallacious notion that being moral consists in self-sacrificially serving others) causes continuous human suffering and death. Yet another example of this fact is illustrated in a recent article by Dr. Sally Satel (a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute). Because of the widespread…
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Heroes at Harvard
June 7, 2006
While Bush and company scheme to provide the America-hating Iranian theocracy with nuclear technology, some people are thinking rationally and promoting human life. From the Boston Globe: Harvard scientists announced yesterday that they are beginning an ambitious attempt to create the world's first cloned human embryonic stem cells, bringing the…
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Altruism: The Morality of Logical Fallacies
May 22, 2006
Altruism, the idea that being moral consists in self-sacrificially serving others, is accepted to some extent by almost everyone today. But no reason has ever been given as to why people should sacrifice for others. Of course, alleged reasons have been given, but not legitimate ones. So let’s consider the alleged reasons—of which there are approximately six—each of which involves a logical fallacy.
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Religion vs. Free Speech
May 20, 2006
Demonstrates that the tenets of religion are incompatible with the right to free speech, and shows why those who want to establish and maintain freedom of speech must repudiate religion and embrace the rational, secular foundation for rights.

From the Editor, Summer 2006
May 20, 2006
Craig Biddle introduces the Summer 2006 issue.
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Introducing The Objective Standard
February 20, 2006
Outlines the philosophy on which The Objective Standard is based and indicates what is to come.
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