Monthly Archives: January 2012

Frisbee: Who Needs It

31st
Jan. × ’12
By Roderick

More juvenilia: Ayn Rand Writes Worthless Book, a parody, directed at both Randians and anti-Randians, on the occasion of the posthumous publication of Rand’s Philosophy: Who Needs It – so 1982, age 18, the height of my Randian period. And if this is what I was writing at the height of my Randian period, I [...]

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The Atrocity of Hope, Part 19: Droning On

30th
Jan. × ’12
By Roderick

The politerati are all aflutter because GOP party hack Reince Priebus compared our President Incarnate to Francesco Schettino, the cruise ship captain who’s been charged with manslaughter in connection with the recent shipwreck off the coast of Italy. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Priebus’s counterhack on the Democratic side, called it an “unbelievable comparison,” opining that “for [...]

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Little Known Fact

30th
Jan. × ’12
By Roderick

“Gai Pan” means “doesn’t socialize.”

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Armed With Ajax!

29th
Jan. × ’12
By Roderick

More juvenilia: an essay on Sophocles’ Ajax, from senior year of college.

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The Butler Did It

29th
Jan. × ’12
By Roderick

Josiah Warren is often called the father of American individualist anarchism. (I’m in the midst of reading Crispin Sartwell’s excellent Warren collection.) Most of Warren’s major works are relatively easy to find online; an exception is his unpublished Notebook D, edited by Ann Butler for her undergraduate thesis in 1964. This too turns out to [...]

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Spiked

20th
Jan. × ’12
By Roderick

More juvenilia: some unfinished stories from the 1970s.

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