Across the Surface of Measureless Grey
Feb 21If you’re in the Auburn area tomorrow (Feb. 22), drop by the Gnu’s Room (the bookshop/coffeeshop at the corner of Gay & Samford, next to Amsterdam Café) from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. for coffee and philosophy. The AU Philosophy Club is hosting a public forum on the philosophy of colour; I’ll be on the panel, [...]
Anarchists Under Ron Paul’s Bed
Feb 20One of the makers of the Anarchism in America video (about which I’ve previously blogged) has a piece up at HoughPough on Ron Paul, Libertarianism, and the Anarchist Connection. Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Ezra Heywood, Angela Heywood, Emma Goldman, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Karl Hess, and Murray Bookchin all get name-checked. The [...]
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) [...]
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