In one week (on Oct. 20), I begin the live version of my new course on the second half of the phenomenal speech, “The Objectivist Ethics.” The first 60 paragraphs of this speech concerned “meta-ethics”: the derivation of one’s life as one’s ultimate value and man’s survival qua man as the standard of moral value. This course

“American found guilty of murder and multiple rapes” is a headline you’ll never see. But how often have you seen: “Illegal immigrant found guilty of . . .” People reading the latter are highly unlikely to realize that they are being manipulated. But they are: the headlines about illegal immigrants are cherry-picked by the anti-immigrationists.

A member wrote: Each of these great city states, and smaller ones, built up their own private navies to protect shipping—and were made incredibly rich as the dominators of Mediterranean trade. Several comments. First “anarcho-capitalism” (used before the quoted passage) is an invalid concept. There is no more validity to “anarcho-capitalism” than to “state capitalism”

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Here’s the updated slides for my OCON ’23 presentation on the philosophy of mathematics: Saving Math from Plato

I’m pleased to announce that I will be teaching two courses at Ayn Rand University for the next two quarters (16 weeks total): Logical Thinking and ITOE, starting April 17. Each class will meet twice a week for 1 hour 15 minutes (that’s the amount of time I’ve found, empirically, to be right for my