The Tragic Rand
Oct 16Will Wilkinson has a good anti-conflationist piece on Rand, here. (CHT Charles Johnson.) I posted the following quibble: Excellent piece (and on related points see also my posts Ayn Rand’s Left-Libertarian Legacy and Ayn Rand and the Capitalist Class); but I think I disagree with you about the benevolent-universe premise; when she says that success [...]
Living Dangerously
Oct 13Check out this amazing video of a gibbon fearlessly teasing two tigers. Admittedly they’re quite young tigers – but still, they’re not itty bitty cubs or anything; they definitely surpass their tormentor in fangs, claws, and sheer mass. But in speed and agility – not so much. More than anything, I was reminded of ERB’s [...]
Spangler on Social Revolution
Oct 13Brad Spangler has an excellent post on the relationship between thick libertarianism and anti-electoralism.
Hugo Mexicano
Oct 11Ayn Rand always preferred stories in which the main conflict is between noble and heroic figures (though one or both may be tragically misguided) rather than between heroes and villains; this is one of many things she liked about Victor Hugo, whose works evince the same preference. I was reminded of this last night on [...]
Not Peace But a Sword
Oct 09The very first Nobel Peace Prize was given to a libertarian economist and peace activist. A few years later, they started giving it to mass murderers. The latter tradition seems to be the one they’ve chosen to continue.
Valli Girl
Oct 08The 1942 Italian film version of We the Living (Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi, and Fosco Giachetti) – the best of the Rand movies, and by Rand’s own admission better than the Rand-scripted The Fountainhead – is finally out on dvd, and this version includes some cool extras. First, there’s 45 minutes’s worth of the hour [...]
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