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Friday, October 30, 2009

Jennifer Burns and Anne Heller Speak at Cato

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Wednesday Nite Whim-Worshipping

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This seemed somehow apropos.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 31

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Politics of Human Nature 15: Sociology of the Intellectual. In the essay “For the New Intellectual,” we find Rand insisting that “the need ...
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"Howard Roark in New Delhi"

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Jennifer Burns writes for Foreign Policy about the surprising popularity of Rand's "The Fountainhead." Rand's popularity...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Jennifer Burns on Jon Stewart

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Jennifer Burns www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul...
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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Review of Burn’s "Goddess of the Market"

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Jennifer Burns' book focuses on Rand’s development as a thinker and philosopher and connects this development with the broader conservat...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 30

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Politics of Human Nature 14: Egalitarian Envy. In an earlier “Objectivism and Politics” post, we found Rand using the phrase “ hatred of th...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

How Ayn Rand Made Her World

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From the previews of the forthcoming bio by Anne Heller, "Ayn Rand And The World She Made" the basic thesis seems to be that Rand ...
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Thursday, October 08, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 29

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Politics of Human Nature 13: Canaille . John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, wrote that "there is a natural Aristocracy among ...
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 28

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Politics of Human Nature 12: Humanitarianism and nihilism. Humanitarianism, when it becomes extreme, desperate, belligerently utopian, and ...
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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Hoisted From Comments: A Reminiscence of the NBI

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In comments , tenaj gives us this intriguing personal snapshot of the Nathaniel Branden Institute, and an alternative view to the one curre...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 27

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Politics of Human Nature 11: Humanitarianism and tribalism. In an earlier post , I quoted Rand characterizing “ the morality of altruism” a...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 26

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Politics of Human Nature 10: Humanitarianism and cowardice. For Rand and her followers, it is quite obvious why altruism is counter-produc...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

It's Still Real To James Valliant, Dammit!

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"[I]f Ms. Heller's private comments -- and asking me to read the galleys of her new biography -- are any measure -- PARC has foreve...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 25

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Politics of Human Nature 9: Psychological source of humanitarianism’s failures. Over at YahooAnswers.com, someone calling himself “Mr. Bl...
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Friday, September 04, 2009

The Objectivist Party vs "Toxic Randroid Cultists"

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"Unfortunately, your movement has spawned Toxic Randroid Cultists who reject reason in the application of your philosophy and who treat...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 24

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Politics of Human Nature 8: Asceticism. At one point in his Mind and Society , Pareto notes that the “principles from which the humanitaria...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 23

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Politics of Human Nature 7: Psychology of humanitarianism. In Philosophy: Who Needs It , Rand makes the following assertion: It is obvi...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 22

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Politics of Human Nature 7: Psychology and social type of the businessman. Ayn Rand imagines a polity where entrepreneurs and capitalists a...
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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Retouching Rand

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Objectiblog 's Neil Parille looks at the ongoing campaign to invent the Perfect Rand. "A half-truth, in many issues, is more mislea...
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