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The Austrian Economists (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Steven Horwitz You can hear me talk on Rand, the recession, and economics here.
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, spoke to Reason.tv recently about her new book: My review of Burns’ biography can be found here. Similar Posts:The World Of Ayn Rand Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead Of The Modern Libertarian Movement Gene Healy Talks About The Cult Of The Presidency The Enduring [...]
Rene's Apple (Free subscription) | yesterday
Voting for the Democrats- the party that under John Kennedy stood for promoting freedom around the world, low taxes, free trade, and more-and today stands for none of these things (plus fetishistically endorses abortion), simply isn't an option. But what many Catholic Republicans like myself wonder is-do we really want a party that's seemingly over-run by close-the-borders racists, Ayn Rand fanatics...
[Д♠] Impact :: [Д♠] Sex & War (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
“Today, people are beginning to understand that the government's account is overdrawn, that a piece of paper is not the equivalent of a gold coin, or an automobile, or a loaf of bread—and that if you attempt to falsify monetary values, you do not achieve abundance, you merely debase the currency and go bankrupt.” —Ayn Rand, ‘Moral Inflation’ For the uninitiated,...
Ravings of a Feral Genius (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Readers at the Guardian are spectacularly unimpressed by my essay on America's Ayn Rand revival . I knew I shoulda just reprinted my years-earlier discussion of what Ayn Rand can teach us about sex , or maybe my high school class notes from The Fountainhead .
Matt J. Duffy (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Here's a great column from Cathleen Falsani on what's wrong with the new Gap ad, which suggest that we should "86 the rules" and just do whatever-we-wanna: Unless we're meant to be concelebrating Bacchanalia or -- and this is even a stretch -- Mardi Gras, nothing in the Christian, Jewish and pagan traditions or the African-American cultural ideals that Kwanzaa celebrates would encourage the...
Late Reviews and Latest Obsessions (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Fountainhead , by Ayn Rand, Read by Christopher Hurt, Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2007 I've read a lot of books in my life. Big books, small books, important books, difficult books, trashy books. And I've listened to a lot of audiobooks, often things I wouldn't take the time to sit down and read, things I could listen to as I went about cleaning the house, working, driving someplace, and so on. With...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I’ve been tweeting as the Voice in Stephen Harper’s Head for a couple weeks now. I think it’s going okay. One weird side effect is that I find the voice in my own head now sometimes sounds like the voice of the actual Stephen Harper, which can be quite disconcerting when I’m watching TV and [...]
Mabinogogiblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Guardian has an article on the current Ayn Rand revival. There's an Ayn Rand revival in America these days. Sales of her books Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead have skyrocketed in the past year, along with the number of Rand-themed articles in mainstream publications. The central philosophical (and indeed, scientific) problem for individualist like Rayn is the fact that homo "sapiens"...
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Outside of her husband Frank O’Connor, and possibly even to a greater extent than he, there were no two people closer to Ayn Rand than Barbara and Nathaniel Branden. Here they are, in separate interviews, discussing Rand, her ideas, and the movement they were a part of: Barbara Branden: Nathaniel Branden: For me the most interesting part of the [...]
Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
by Jessica Two recently published biographies of Ayn Rand have been getting a good deal of attention recently. It’s unusual that two so similar books have been published more or less simultaneously, and the net effect is to make it seem as if we are in the middle of a Rand resurgence. Thomas Mallon writes in the New Yorker that “most readers make their first and last pilgrimage to Galt’s...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I normally don't read biographies but was so much fun that I finished this huge 600-pages long volume in 4 days. Heller's biography of Ayn Rand is extremely detailed (sometimes, excessively so), but it is overall well-written and fun to read.For the m...
On the BorderLine (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Last night I attended Keith Lockitch’s presentation at Denver University, and had the opportunity to ask him some questions as well as meet him briefly afterwards. Dr. Lockitch is very bright, well informed, and spot on. The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights has posted a tag team smack down of sorts on [...]
Credit Writedowns (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Rise and Fall of Empires – Paul Kedrosky (cool visual) FT Alphaville – A Minskian roadmap to the next gold mania At Failed Banks, Post-Mortems Disclose Excessive, Yet Obvious, Risk – NYTimes.com Economic Perspectives from Kansas City: Should America Kowtow to China? FT.com – Fears of China property bubble The Ayn Rand revival | [...]
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