Atlas Shrunk, Part 9: Atlas Shrugs Again; So Do I
Feb 02It’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 [...]
Frisbee: Who Needs It
Jan 31More 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 [...]
Atlas Shrunk, Part 8: Cover Story
Oct 05I see that the dvd for the Atlas Shrugged movie is actually being advertised with an attractive and intriguing poster. See it in high detail here. A pity that the poster for the movie wasn’t more like this. Frankly, the movie poster doesn’t even look like a movie poster; it looks more like some sort [...]
Preserved in JARS
Aug 18The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies now has online archives. Here, selfishly (appropriately), is a list of links to my own JARS articles over the past decade: The Benefits and Hazards of Dialectical Libertarianism (2.2, Spring 2001) Keeping Context In Context: The Limits of Dialectics (3.2, Spring 2002) Praxeology: Who Needs It (6.2, Spring 2005) [...]
Kevin Carson Speaks!
Jul 28Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Thompson will not speak to you tonight. His time is up. I have taken it over. You were to hear a report on the world crisis. That is what you are going to hear. For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is Kevin Carson? This is Kevin Carson speaking. I’ve [...]
Ayn Rand in the Land of the Dinosaurs
Jul 11Now that we know that the young Ayn Rand was a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle’s dinosaur novel The Lost World and used to play at being one of the pterodactyls from the book, it’s easy to see the likely influence on the following passage about Kira’s childhood from We the Living: The Argounov summer [...]
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