LevelUp 2025 Program Announced!
The program for LevelUp 2025 has been posted—and it’s all about living fully, loving life, and advancing liberty.
Feb 4, 2025
Craig Biddle
Craig is cofounder and director of education at Objective Standard Institute, cofounder and editor in chief of The Objective Standard, and executive director of Prometheus Foundation. He is the author of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It; Rational Egoism: The Morality for Human Flourishing; and the forthcoming Moral Truths Your Parents, Preachers, and Teachers Don’t Want You to Know. He is currently working on his fourth book, “Thinking in Principles.” For updates on his work, join his mailing list at CraigBiddle.com.
Morality: Is It Good for You—or Bad for You?
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
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
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”?
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
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
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
I elaborate on the similarities and differences between logical and conceptual fallacies.
Loving Your Life: A Framework for Flourishing
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