Carl Barney on the Ayn Rand Institute and Craig Biddle

Unpacking Controversies: Insights from Carl Barney on ARI and Craig Biddle

In August 2018, I posted an announcement that The Objective Standard and the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) had resumed cooperation. But it turned out that some at ARI were disingenuous about the agreement, so the rapprochement fell through.

I’ve refrained from discussing this publicly because doing so would have required an inordinate amount of time that I wo…