 Kant Can't
by Lindsay Perigo
One of Ayn Rand’s great insights into the conflicts among philosophers through the centuries was that they were usually false - the alleged adversaries, under her withering glare, were exposed as two sides of the same coin, sharing the same underlying flaws. (Read more...)
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  Flirting with Friedrich
by Lindsay Perigo
Back by popular demand (from Lindsay.) (Read more...)
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 Showtime! SoloHQ 2.0
by Lindsay Perigo
Below is a message from SOLO’s Executive Director Joseph Rowlands. It heralds the arrival of the much-anticipated SOLOHQ 2.0. Joe & SOLOHQ’s web master, Jeff Landauer have been slaving away for months bringing this new, more interactive site to life. I salute them on its birth.
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Law vs Custom
by Lindsay Perigo
In his excellent essay below, "Not Enough Justice," Joe Rowlands spotlights a type of conundrum routinely flung at Objectivists... (Read more...)
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Sixty Issues And Ten Years On
by Lindsay Perigo
In my very first editorial in the very first Free Radical -- in May, 1994 -- I explained the magazine's mission by quoting a businessman's admonition: "The trouble with you, Lindsay, is that you reduce everything to an issue of freedom." (Read more...)
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 Valiant Valentine!
by Lindsay Perigo
Valentine's Day, when your fancy may unashamedly turn to romance. The Human Wrongs Commissariat won't try to have you arrested & even the Ministry of Ugly Wimmin's Affairs will acknowledge the last word of its title. (Read more...)
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 Musical Mirth
by Lindsay Perigo
Two dear friends have sent me some seasonal cheer of a liquid red variety - already consumed, alas - & a little volume called Quotations from the World of Music. (Read more...)
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 Johann Strauss - Honorary SOLOist!
by Lindsay Perigo
"An evocative bow at almost a fairy-tale Vienna, a Vienna of young hussars & beautiful ladies, a Vienna of sentimentality & charm. A pretty-pretty & never-never Vienna of dance & romance."
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Ellsworth Toohey - Time For A Regime Change
by Lindsay Perigo
In last week's article I noted that the most ardent practitioners of the ethic of self-sacrifice in our time are not Christians, but Muslims – to wit, the suicide bombers. (Read more...)
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Can Capitalism Survive?
by Lindsay Perigo
The despicable deeds of sundry terrorist scum, including & since those of September 11, 2001, have been widely & accurately characterised as an assault on civilisation itself. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 31, 2003 |
AR--Ayn Rand: Audacious Revolutionary!
by Lindsay Perigo
Since I'm still in seasonally nostalgic mode, let me reminisce about the day Ayn Rand died, twenty-one years ago. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 24, 2003 |
Singing SOLO, Three Years On
by Lindsay Perigo
Around this time three years ago, SOLO was born. (Read more...)
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Editorial - This & That
by Lindsay Perigo
There are lots of things I want to say this issue, so rather than editorialise on a single theme, I shall regale you, dear reader, with tidbits. (Read more...)
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 Schools and Values ... with Acknowledgements to Ayn Rand
by Lindsay Perigo
The Hon. Lindsay Perigo, host of the Politically Incorrect Show, has been appointed Minister of Education at gunpoint, & made to produce a list of values for state schools to promote, since it has become clear that no one else has a clue. Here is what he has come up with: (Read more...)
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SOLO Proudly Announces ...
by Lindsay Perigo
In SOLO's Credo I wrote that SOLO was not afraid to acknowledge that Ayn Rand was wrong about some things, and that homosexuality was one of them. I made it clear to anyone who cared to listen at the time that one of SOLO's first projects would be to exorcise the shocking homophobia that has disgraced the Objectivist movement since Day One - to expose it to the lights of day and reason, show it to be the grotesquery that it is and fiercely proclaim how alien it is to a philosophy that sets such store by the identification of reality. (Read more...)
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Philosophies of Faeces
by Lindsay Perigo
It was reported recently from Britain that the Tate Britain art gallery had warned underage visitors to stay away as it unveiled works short-listed for the Turner Prize- including a cast of two large dolls engaged in a sex act. (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 4, 2003 |
The Elixir of Youth
by Lindsay Perigo
Of Swamp Sirens, Mountain Tops ... and Fire in the Belly! (Read more...)
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Saddams Succours #3
by Lindsay Perigo
It will be argued that I ought to change my mind, because no Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found, & it seems increasingly unlikely that any ever will be. Thus, it will be claimed, the very reason the war was waged has been shown to be a pretext, a phoney justification for something America & Britain were hell-bent on doing anyway. Elizabeth Kanabe (Read more...)
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New Products: Audio CDs
by Lindsay Perigo
Two new audio CD's available for sale at SOLOHQ. (Read more...)
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A Timeless Tale
by Lindsay Perigo
Today a tale of two men, vastly different in nature & stature, separated by two hundred years, but both to their own selves true. (Read more...)
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Titanic Trio
by Lindsay Perigo
One memorable night, not so long ago, I imbibed some high-octane emotional fuel, sitting down with like-minded people to watch television documentaries on three giants, each a genius in his own field - author/philosopher Ayn Rand, singer Mario Lanza & architect Frank Lloyd Wright. (Read more...)
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The Age of Crap
by Lindsay Perigo
(Speech delivered to FSB Financial Services seminar, "Keeping in Touch," November 12, 2002.) (Read more...)
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Poseurs & Prohibitionists
by Lindsay Perigo
Did ever a bunch of fraudsters & totalitarians so richly deserve each other? (Read more...)
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Saddam’s Succours, Part 2
by Lindsay Perigo
"I don't want food. I don't want water. I want my freedom." (Read more...)
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Saddam's Succours
by Lindsay Perigo
My words about them are few because few words are necessary. Two of Lenin's come to mind also -- "useful idiots." (Read more...)
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