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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 34

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Politics of Human Nature 18: Economic interests and “rationality.” The current economic debacle has once and for all refuted the belief in ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

National Review's Most Recent Take on Rand

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Peter Wehner over at nationalreview.com has written a brief blog post explaining why Rand's philosophy is not compatible with conservat...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Objectivism & Politics, Part 33

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Politics of Human Nature 17: Vanity and “social metaphysics.” Closely related to the obsession with preeminence and status is vanity. The p...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

The Complement of Atlas Shrugged

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Over at Shtetl-Optimised, Scott Aaronson hits on a key problem with critically approaching Rand's meisterwerk - and indeed, Rand's ...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

The Real Ayn Rand

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Over at Inc. magazine Rand biographer Anne Heller gives a striking interview . Like Jennifer Burns , she has quite a positive overall view...
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Objectivism & Politics, Part 32

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Politics of Human Nature 16: Struggle for preeminence. Social darwinists use to argue that within society there existed a brutal “struggle ...
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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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