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Atlas Shrunk, Part 9: Atlas Shrugs Again; So Do I

Atlas Shrunk, Part 9: Atlas Shrugs Again; So Do I

Feb 02

By Roderick

It’s been announced (timed to coincide with Rand’s birthday) that part 2 of the Atlas film trilogy is going ahead. I wish I could be excited about this. But I found part 1 so lackluster that I haven’t even bought the dvd yet, despite having spent decades fantasising about an Atlas film. (I’ve probably missed [...]

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Who Copies the Copymen?

Who Copies the Copymen?

Feb 01

By Roderick

DC is producing a prequel to Watchmen. What Alan Moore thinks about it. Why Alan Moore’s reaction is hypocritical.

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Frisbee: Who Needs It

Jan 31

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

The Atrocity of Hope, Part 19: Droning On

Jan 30

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

Jan 30

By Roderick

“Gai Pan” means “doesn’t socialize.”

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Armed With Ajax!

Jan 29

By Roderick

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

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I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.

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