Monthly Archives: September 2006

Pale Nerd, Pale Rider

30th
Sep. × ’06
By Roderick

Yet another great video from Weird Al Yankovic – this one is White and Nerdy, a parody of Chamillionaire’s Ridin’ Dirty (watch the latter first). And yes, that is Donny Osmond dancing behind Al. Conical hat tip to Eric Marcus, who probably thinks I’m white and nerdy ….

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Join the Industrial Revolution!

28th
Sep. × ’06
By Roderick

By the early 19th century it had become common among French social theorists, thanks in part to the work of classical liberals like Jean-Baptiste Say and Benjamin Constant, to view history as a struggle between the “industrious” classes, who made their living by production and trade, and the parasitic and plundering classes, who constituted the [...]

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The Revolution Will Be Digitised

28th
Sep. × ’06
By Roderick

A couple of months ago, I was grumping that Proudhon’s General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century wasn’t available online. I see that now it is; thanks, Charles! And check out the rest of Charles’ Fair Use Repository. In Proudhon-related news, I’ll soon be posting (in the Molinari Institute’s online library) Benjamin Tucker’s [...]

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Dagny on a Train

25th
Sep. × ’06
By Roderick

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Looks like Angelina Jolie will indeed be starring in the film version of Atlas Shrugged. (Conical hat tip to Wally Conger and Bob Bidinotto.) This will likely translate into lots of new Rand readers, which is good. But as I’ve said before, we left-Randians will need to work hard to [...]

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The Shroud of Turin

25th
Sep. × ’06
By Roderick

Of all the various tales of Middle-Earth that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote in addition to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, my favourite has long been his unfinished novel Narn i hin Húrin (“The Children of Hurin”), printed in Unfinished Tales. There are two stories from the Middle-Earth backstory cycle that Tolkien [...]

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Why They Were Anarchists

25th
Sep. × ’06
By Roderick

More anarchist classics! Benjamin Tucker and Voltairine de Cleyre each wrote essays on the subject “Why I Am An Anarchist.” Tucker’s essay appeared in Hugh Pentecost’s Twentieth Century in 1892, and was subsequently republished as a pamphlet in 1934. It’s not well known, since it didn’t appear in Liberty, Instead of a Book, or Individual [...]

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