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About Me: I'm an award-winning writer, editor and speaker specializing in cultural and political topics. As of July 2005, I am the editor of The New Individualist, the monthly magazine of The Objectivist Center. In the year before that, I worked as editor of Organization Trends and Foundation Watch, two monthly publications of the Capital Research Center, a watchdog of the nonprofit and philanthropic worlds. I previously served a six-year stint with The Objectivist Center doing a multitude of tasks.

A former Staff Writer for Reader's Digest, I'm author of two books and many high-profile investigative pieces on our criminal justice system, as well as numerous articles and lectures on the environmentalist philosophy and movement. My articles, essays, book and film reviews have appeared in a wide variety of publications. I'm also a frequent public speaker and talk show guest.

The Objectivist philosophy of rational individualism also shapes the perspectives you'll find on my anti-environmentalist Web site, ecoNOT.com, and on my blog. My areas of intellectual interest include philosophy, politics, psychology, self-help, individualism, environmentalism and criminal justice. My personal areas of interest include writing (nonfiction and fiction), public speaking, film, art, music (playing guitar and singing), theater, working out, good food and wine. I'm married to a treasure of a woman (and a talented musician) named Cynthia, and we are the proud parents of a feisty and vocal advocate of individualism, a cat named Luna. We make our home fifty feet from the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, east of Annapolis, MD.

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Thursday
August 4, 2005
Praxes
The Non-Art of Objectivism
by Marcus Bachler
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There has been much criticism, on this website and elsewhere over the years, of the moralizing and cultish behaviour of Objectivists who digest and regurgitate Ayn Rand’s opinions and her philosophical pronouncements. I always believed that this dogmatic adherence to Objectivist doctrine was quite a recent phenomenon, probably encouraged by Ayn Rand herself and continued by her protege Peikoff. However, I’ve had to revise that opinion, because in The Art of Non-Fiction, I found exactly the same type of Objectivist cultish behaviour being criticized by Ayn Rand herself. (Read more...)
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