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.

The Younger Son Mindset, Explained

by Craig Biddle • Philosophy

May 16, 2025

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

LevelUp 2025 Program Announced!

by Craig Biddle • Announcements

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 Biddle • Philosophy

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 Biddle • Philosophy

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 Biddle • Philosophy

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 Biddle • Philosophy

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 Biddle • Business & 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 Biddle • Philosophy

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 Biddle • Philosophy

Oct 17, 2024

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

Loving Your Life: A Framework for Flourishing

by Craig Biddle • Philosophy

Oct 17, 2024

Here’s the video of a talk I gave at LevelUp 2024. I’ll share the accompanying slides below—along with two extra slides I prepared but didn’t use

Conceptual Fallacies and How to Avoid Them

by Craig Biddle • Philosophy

Oct 3, 2024

Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking.

Alex O’Connor’s Red-Herring Thought Experiment vs. Facts that Support Morality

by Craig Biddle • Philosophy

Sep 4, 2024

I elaborate on why Alex’s human-altering thought experiments are counterproductive in trying to understand morality.