Stephen Cox teaches conservatives about Isabel Paterson. (Though it’s a gentle introduction; Cox spares them the Paterson who attacked the corporate elite, condemned the U.S. for perverting science to “fry Japanese babies in atomic radiation,” and told Ayn Rand that garden-variety collectivist ideas came from liberals and really godawful collectivist ideas from conservatives.)
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] I’ve found another review of Isabel Paterson’s The Shadow Riders – this one by Wilson Follett in the October 1916 Atlantic Monthly. (See my discussion of a previous review.) Follett says absolutely nothing of any interest in the review, but I’ve posted it anyway.
Lew Rockwell interviewed me for a couple of brief podcasts this (Thursday) morning; the first one, on anarchism, is up now. (The second one, on the Giant Squid Menace, will be released when the public is ready for it ….)
I’ve been a fan of Lord Dunsany’s haunting novel The Charwoman’s Shadow since I was about nine. (I read it in the edition pictured at right – click on it to see more detail. The beautiful cover has not much to do with the book’s contents [apart from the central figure’s being deficient in shadow] [...]
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Montaigne himself, whose subtle candor disestablished authority as the weather brings down a stone wall …. – Isabel Paterson Outside of libertarian circles, the 16th-century essayist Étienne de la Boétie is best known (when he is known at all) as the “friend of Montaigne” – that is, the friend Montaigne [...]
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Last Friday I presented a revised version of my talk “On Making Small Contributions to Evil” to the Auburn Philosophical Society. This coming weekend I’ll be presenting a paper on “Herbert Spencer, Gustave de Molinari, and the Evanescence of War” at a panel on “The Libertarian Antiwar Tradition from the [...]
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] One of Isabel Paterson’s earliest novels (indeed her first published, though not her first written), The Shadow Riders, has turned up on Google Books. While it’s not the literary tour de force that many of her later novels would be, it is nevertheless, like all her novels, damn good. Although [...]
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Against all fear; against the weight of what, For lack of worse name, men miscall the law; Against the tyranny of Creed, against the hot, Foul creed of priest, and Superstition’s maw; Against all men-made shackles, and a man-made Hell – Alone – at last – unaided – I REBEL! [...]
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] The Mises Institute has posted a PDF of a 1945 issue of American Affairs featuring articles by, inter alia, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Garet Garrett, and Isabel Paterson. I’ve posted an HTML version of the Paterson piece, a book review, on the Molinari Institute site (not because it’s an [...]
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Thanks to the Mises Institute, Isabel Paterson’s 1943 classic The God of the Machine is now online (as a honking big PDF file). The book’s central thesis is that there are systematic analogies between political structure and engineering structure, and that the freest and most prosperous societies historically have been [...]
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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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