The American Conservative is running a symposium on great works that have been neglected. Participants inlcude David Bromwich, San Tanenhaus, Florence King, and Reason's NickGillespie, who writes: Is any major American writer fading faster than William Carlos Williams, who had the bum judgment to write a five-book epic poem about Paterson, New Jersey, of all godforsaken places? Williams...
Two new books about Sarah Palin— Sarah from Alaska and The Persecution of Sarah Palin —attempt to explain why the hockey mom from Wasilla, Alaska, drives both detractors and fans alike to something approaching insanity. But as NickGillespie writes, neither book quite fully explains the oversize reaction to Palin.
Writing in The Washington Post , Reason 's NickGillespie reviews two new book about everybody's favorite/most-hated pol, Sarah Palin. A snippet: No recent political figure has ignited the fury of the chattering classes like former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Shortly after she injected signs of life into the zombified McCain campaign with a...
At the end of a review of two new books on Sarah Palin, reason editor NickGillespie makes the following claim: If Richard Nixon could come back from a famously non-mediagenic presidential run, a humiliating gubernatorial defeat and the most god-awful retirement speech in history, there’s no reason that Sarah Palin can’t. Or at least won’t [...]
Reason TV brings us this video on the continued popularity of Ayn Rand and her blockbuster novel, "Atlas Shrugged." Ed Morrissey At Hot Air makes this point : Just how much has Rand and her Objectivism returned to the fore? Her book, with no particular marketing campaign of which I’m aware, is just outside the top 100 books on Amazon, at #103. This is a perfect example of what Nick...
... campaign is just outside the top 100 books on Amazon, at #103. This is a perfect example of what NickGillespie calls “the long shelf life of Ayn Rand,” which springs from the natural impulse of a free people when confronted with statism , even so-called benevolent statism. In the novel, the producers of the world act individually, but eventually all reach the same conclusion....
... Rand And The American Right . Approximately four minutes long and produced by Meredith Bragg and NickGillespie, "Rand-O-Rama" analyzes the 21st-century Rand renaissance. It is part of the Reason.tv series Radicals For Capitalism: Celebrating the Ideas of Ayn Rand . Go here for more information , other videos, and related materials. Go here for downloadable versions of "Rand-O-Rama."...
