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Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today's Star “ I was going to bed and then I ran across this sentence in "Atlas Shrugged." I got up to come back here and write it down. “ When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it's picked up by scoundrels--and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The title of Neal Stephenson's latest work of speculative fiction, "Anathem," struck me as an unfortunate one, at least on first (and second) glance, for three reasons: it looks like a typo for "Anthem"; we can't be entirely sure how to pronounce it; and most of us have no idea what it means. Still, it's [...].
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Vox Popoli (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
JS still isn't convinced that government shouldn't attempt to legislate away the business cycle: I come at this as a liberal Democrat, so full disclosure right away. But let me ask you if you have considered that Ayn Rand style-libertarian economic policies have their limits as well. "Free markets" work in theory efficiently when every participant in the market has the same bargaining power and the...
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http://shuffleboil.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
When it comes to legendary comic book artist Steve Ditko, there are two paths of interest in his story. One is obvious — as the co-creator of Spider-Man who wrote and drew the first few years of the character’s existence, his skill as an great innovator in the comic book form is of great importance. There [...]
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Thrutch (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
To anyone who would like a systematic presentation of Ayn Rand's philosophy (and who has 5-6 hours available each week) I highly recommend auditing Onkar's "Seminar on Ayn Rand’s Philosophy of Objectivism" starting at the end of October. Details here .
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Not PC (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The Audio Books site is offering punters a free Ayn Rand audio book . How cool is that! Choose one of either Philosophy: Who Needs It? , The Virtue of Selfishness , or Atlas Shrugged, which would be a very long listen indeed -- although as this YouTube presentation using the Atlas audio book indicates, a damn good listen. Just the sort of thing you'd want to listen to while touring the country by Winnebago...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
On Friday, the cofounder of the world's most comprehensive directory of socialites, Jimmy Wales, was one of the recipients of the $138,000 Quadriga prize for philanthropy in Berlin. Wales is a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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etlamatey (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
As was destined, the House of Representatives approved the bailout package yesterday. Ayn Rand's rant from Anthem comes to mind: The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak...
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The latest featured contributor to Writers Read: Dan Hooper, author of the newly released Nature's Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force. Part of his entry:Within the last month or so, I finished reading Bill Clinton's autobiography My Life and The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis. I also read a book about the philosophy of Ayn Rand, but
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evanescent (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
It’s October 2008, and that is significant for two reasons. Firstly, it marks exactly 12 months since this time last year, and secondly, it marks almost one year on from when I first started to study Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Objectivism has many critics. Why? I will offer my personal opinions on that later. Firstly, [...]
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Grizzly Groundswell Radio Network (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Subscribe Unsubscribe From: Punchey Added: July 24, 2007 Want to Subscribe? Sign in to YouTube now! Sign in with your Google Account! This is my attempt to explain the nature of money, Capitalism (free [...]
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Gus Van Horn (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Via Randex and HBL is an article in The Wall Street Journal that reads almost as if Ayn Rand herself had written it: " Loose Money and the Roots of the Crisis ". Here's an excerpt. In the aftermath of this financial catastrophe , as we sort out causes and assign blame, with experts offering various solutions -- More regulation! Less complex financial instruments! -- let's not lose sight of the most...
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Gadget Lab (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
It's time to cut the crap — your laptop is chocked full of more junk than an inner city garbage truck and is heavier than an Ayn Rand novel. Between applications you don't need, hardware you don't use, and bloatware...
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Not PC (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
I posted yesterday a link to one site set up to ensure sure you're armed with the necessary intellectual ammunition to understand and appreciate the cause of the present economic turmoil, the cure, and the means by which it can be prevented from happening again. The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights' new Web page defends a very different view from the interventionist mainstream—that the actual...
