Dagny on a Train
Sep 25[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 [...]
The Shroud of Turin
Sep 25Of 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 [...]
Why They Were Anarchists
Sep 25More 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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