Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggart
Richard Gleaves has seen the first ten minutes of the Atlas Shrugged movie and lived to tell about it. (See also this.)
At the moment, my main hope for this movie is that it will be successful enough to prompt someone else to remake it. But we’ll see.
Hey all. I’m spending a very relaxing but all too short Thanksgiving break in Key Largo.
Ran down to Key West on Wednesday, had a great holiday dinner back here at the Conch House on Thursday. Heading back tomorrow morning, alas.
Jeff Riggenbach quotes me in his piece on Nozick on Mises.org today.
The purge mentality at ARI appears to be alive and well; and it seems that the doctrine of Rand’s inerrancy in matters of philosophy has been extended to include an assertion of Peikoff’s inerrancy in matters of history of science. More info here, here, and here.
David Kelley said everything that needed to be said about this sort of crap back in 1990.
Here’s some news about the Atlas Shrugged movie, plus a cast list.
The news looks slightly better than I originally feared – i.e. the budget is more than the initially reported $5 million, they plan to make more than one movie, Francisco is in the script after all, etc. Still not especially optimistic.
Asset: Feminists strike back in India
Liability: Leonard Peikoff embraces private terrorism against American Muslims
Sometimes the good news is worse than the bad news.
(Note that in this case the badness is in part the result of IP; they had to go ahead with a half-ass production to prevent the rights from reverting.)