[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] As noted previously (see here, here, here, and here), I’m a fan of Isabel Paterson’s novels. So I was interested to find reviews of some of them in the online archives of Time magazine. Unfortunately, the reviews are cutesy and idiotic (and in the case of Never Ask the End, [...]
I’ve always been struck by these two similar yet contrasting images from two of my favourite novelist-philosophers: Albert indicated a stretch of stone wall beside the road, protecting against a marshy dip of the terrain. … Oh, another historic spot … each had the same story of unarmed hostages facing a German firing squad. Impossible [...]
My copy of Molinari’s 1859 De l’enseignement obligatoire (co-authored with the first libertarian Nobel laureate) arrived today from a bookseller in Geneva – and unexpectedly turns out to carry an autograph from Molinari himself! à mon ami Henry [?] Logh, G. de Molinari It joins the happy company of my autographed copy of Paterson’s Singing [...]
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Florence Finch Kelly was an important libertarian writer of the late 19th century, and a contributor to Benjamin Tucker’s Liberty. Isabel Paterson was one of the leading libertarian theorists of the early-to-mid-20th century, and a major influence on Ayn Rand. It now turns out that their trajectories intersected: Kelly wrote [...]
The Empirical Me
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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