Craig Biddle

Craig is cofounder and executive director of Objective Standard Institute, as well as cofounder and editor in chief of The Objective Standard. His books include Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It; and Rational Egoism: The Morality for Human Flourishing; and the forthcoming Forbidden Facts: Moral Truths Your Parents, Preachers, and Teachers Don’t Want You to Know. He is also currently working on a book about thinking in principles. Learn more and join his mailing list at CraigBiddle.com.

God’s Garage Sale: The One Tool He Won’t Sell

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

Jun 4, 2025

God grew tired of managing countless tools to control the universe and decided to sell them all at a garage sale—except for one mysterious black box he refused to part...

Facts Don’t Care About Your Faith, Feelings, or Consensus

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

May 30, 2025

Facts exist independently of faith, feelings, or consensus; only reason—grounded in observation, logic, and evidence—reveals what’s true and good, making rational thinking the path to both personal happiness and political freedom.

Altruism Has No Clothes

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

May 30, 2025

Altruism survives like the emperor’s fake clothes—propped up by fear, not reason. Strip it down, and all that’s left are logical fallacies.

The Younger Son Mindset, Explained

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

May 16, 2025

Why do some thrive while others stall? One mindset shift explains it all.

LevelUp 2025 Program Announced!

by Craig BiddleAnnouncements

Feb 4, 2025

The program for LevelUp 2025 has been posted—and it’s all about living fully, loving life, and advancing liberty.

Morality: Is It Good for You—or Bad for You?

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

Jan 8, 2025

According to the prevailing moral code, morality is bad for you. And I think that’s obscene.

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Unity of the Holidays and OSI

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

Dec 18, 2024

The three big holidays form the season of reason—a meaningful representation of the virtuous cycle of life.

Craig Biddle: Logic and Love – The Harmony of Happiness

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

Dec 5, 2024

What does it mean to love life? Are love and logic intertwined?

Craig Biddle and Stephen Hicks Debate: Is Objectivism a “Closed System” or an “Open System”?

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

Dec 3, 2024

Is Objectivism just the ideas Rand discovered in her lifetime or is it open to being altered by others?

ITEC: Objective Standards for Nonfiction Writing

by Craig BiddleBusiness & Finance

Nov 6, 2024

If you want to write powerfully, embrace objective standards. Over my thirty years of writing and editing, I’ve developed a set I call ITEC.

Objectivism and Leadership

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

Oct 21, 2024

Here’s a wide-ranging conversation I had with the good people at the Institute for Leadership Training, in Brazil.

On the Relationship of Logical and Conceptual Fallacies

by Craig BiddlePhilosophy

Oct 17, 2024

I elaborate on the similarities and differences between logical and conceptual fallacies.

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