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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | yesterday
Entertainment Weekly gives a thumbs up to the new coffee table biography of Spider-Man co-creator and Ayn Rand fanatic Steve Ditko, calling the artist's life "one of the strangest comic-book tales ever: not just how a talented man was ripped off by others, but how he denied himself a larger place in comics history." Ditko is one strange bird, no doubt about it. As reason contributor Julian Sanchez...
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Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
There are various modern interpretations of Adam Smith’s legacy available. Some authors extolling the virtues of ‘greed is good’ (after Bernard Mandeville , 1724, and Ayn Rand , 1954), though neither author would attract any sympathy from Adam Smith , as indeed Mandeville explicitly did not (see Smith's Moral Sentiments , Book VII), and some other authors adopting Adam Smith’s moral philosophy as appropriate...
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The View From North Central Idaho (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I highly recommend Ayn Rand's collection of essays, Philosophy: Who Needs It? I was reminded of her work by this discussion in the Washington Post : I think both party's leaders would be wise to do away with platforms altogether. It's the logical conclusion of a society that lacks an understanding of the need for philosophy. Political candidates of the same party can be on opposite sides of the same...
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The Amateur Economist & Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
"The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights..." -- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Author Source: _The Virtue of Selfishness_ 1964 "Repeal that [welfare] law, and you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Government Bytes (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Yaron Brook of BH Equity Research and the Ayn Rand Institute has an interesting piece on Forbes.com where he suggests that government actions -- not an unregulated free market as lamented by politicians and the media -- are responsible for the housing crisis. He argues that the Community Reinvestment Act, the Federal Reserve's easy money policy, and the government's willingness to prop up failing financial...
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The New SteveSilver.net (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The legendary Canadian prog rockers Rush get the Colbert bump: Of........ salesmen!...
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KR Blog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
I’m back in my hometown, Baltimore, for the first time in a year, and I can’t stop looking at my old bookshelves. All the reasons I decided to become a poet are here: James Baldwin, Raymond Chandler, Richard Wright, Ayn Rand, Isabelle Allende, Monopoly strategy books, Natasha Saje, Daniel Defoe, Angela Ball–strange reasons, maybe, now. But [...]
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PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
"I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.".
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
I've never been a big fan of novels. I far prefer non-fiction, especially books dealing with history, politics, or culture. I've begun reading Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966) by Ayn Rand. Of course, I've heard of Ayn Rand and have read a few essays by her and her Objectivist supports, but this is the first collection of her work that I've read. What are you reading
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Those are good questions, Max. Art Pope and the JLF are much more relevant to lives of North Carolinians than Ayn Rand ever has been, or ever will be. I think any seeker of political office who wants to talk about the free market would be well-advised to contradistinguish himself from them. -- recently transplanted from Indianapolis, IN to Durham, NC I wouldn't recommend drugs, alcohol, violence,...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
If you'd like audio versions of recent reason.tv segments—including the latest Drew Carey documentary, " Banned: Welcome to Nanny State Nation " and interviews with Trekkies director Roger Nygard, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand author Jerome Tuccille, and more— go here easy-to-download MP3 files.
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kottke (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
A 1964 interview of Ayn Rand from Playboy magazine . Galt's statement is a dramatized summation of the Objectivist ethics. Any system of ethics is based on and derived, implicitly or explicitly, from a metaphysics. The ethic derived from the metaphysical base of Objectivism holds that, since reason is man's basic tool of survival, rationality is his highest virtue. To use his mind, to perceive reality...
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Myrhaf (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
A few years ago a teenage girl asked my sister, who is a high school librarian, for books by authors "who write like Ayn Rand." My sister knew who to come to for advice. I named the romantic realist authors I could think of, then paused and said, "Actually... there's no one who writes like Ayn Rand." I can sympathize with that girl, because I too would like to read books written like Rand's. I've never...
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Oh, and um, screw Ayn Rand. (That is a message from my son.)*Linda It appears that your son has read some parts of Ayn hot moments in her life. Every Libertarian is Murray N. Rothbard until they prove otherwise* Branden I doubt it! I am sure Lysander Spooner would debate that if he was in a libertarian debating society [Ron Paul meet up group]that goes nowhere. Branden! I had no idea that the Haymont...
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The people have as much right to hear him as they do the other two. This is not about his rights, or what he has to offer. This is about the rights of the people. Oh, and um, screw Ayn Rand. (That is a message from my son.) Can we, instead, start talking about "for the good of North Carolina?" --Leslie H. Pointing at Naked Emperors
