 Review of "If You Were Mine" by Mario Lanza
by Lindsay Perigo
What glittering jewels are gathered here! The selections on the Damon Lanza Productions CD If You Were Mine, unavailable elsewhere, show Damon's father in the freshest of voices & highest of spirits. This is now definitely added to my list of Desert Island CDs, so much material is there that, having heard it, I could not live without. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
September 25, 2002 |
Objectivists--The Young and The Christian
by Lindsay Perigo
"Judge not that ye be not judged," said Jesus. Forgive & love everyone, unconditionally, says Christianity. "Judge, & be prepared to be judged," said Ayn Rand. Withhold neither your contempt for men's vices nor your love for their virtues, says Objectivism. (Read more...)
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Tuesday
September 24, 2002 |
 Pandora's Box Part II
by Michael Newberry
When Pandora opened the box, marvelous things rose up and vanished into space before her eyes. Without grasping the nature of this phenomenon, she unleashed Postmodernism on humanity. (Read more...)
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Pandora's Box Part I
by Michael Newberry
Our civilization's humanities, the branches of knowledge such as philosophy and art, have contracted Postmodernism. (Read more...)
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Reaching New Readers
by Barry Kayton
I'd like to see are more attempts by young Objectivist writers to reach new kinds of readers. (Read more...)
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No Case for the Empire
by Glenn Lamont
In an age of "anti-heroes," where the lines of morality are blurred and virtues are package dealt, there are few examples where heroes are heroes and villains are villains. Star Wars is one of them. (Read more...)
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For Mario Lanza
by David C. Adams
A poem. (Read more...)
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Reply to Ust
by David C. Adams
I would like to comment on several points made by Dan Ust in his article, "Romanticism: Beyond Rand." (Read more...)
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The Ninth
by David C. Adams
Likely you have been touched by its painful beauty, made to stand a little straighter, eyes closed, as that familiar pulse of notes, in their simple phrase, moistens even the hardest eyes. Ah, that's the Ode to Joy! Such simple notes, laughing, exultant, and at once there is nowhere you do not see beauty. And while its melody is with you, your steps ascend to stars. (Read more...)
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Top Five(ish) Films
by Peter Cresswell
Having been asked by the SOLO Headmaster to choose and discuss my top five films while avoiding, for the most part, the obvious Objectivist canon, I have found that to name only five is too difficult, and I herewith protest that to demand five is blatant and unforgivable rationalism. Thus unencumbered by my protestations, I present my top bunch, excluding docos, and in no particular order… (Read more...)
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Frank Lloyd Wright
by Peter Cresswell
A remarkable film on this architectural genius ably demonstrates both his genius and his struggle - the reasons for his struggle can be deduced from the commentary, while the visual presentation of the products of his genius is worth the price of admission ten times over! (Read more...)
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The Laramie Project:Fighting Gay Panic and The Culture of Hate
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
I recently saw a theater production called The Laramie Project. The play has toured the United States, and is currently running off-Broadway in New York City. It is produced by the Tectonic Theater Project. Eight men and women portray about thirty or so characters in a two-and-a-half hour drama on a minimalist stage. The characters are distillations of about 200 people whom the theater company interviewed over a one-year period in Laramie, Wyoming. It centers on the small town's reaction to the ghastly 1998 murder of a young gay student named Matthew Shepard. Shepard's murder has become a rallying cry of sorts by those who embrace so-called ‘hate crimes’ legislation. (Read more...)
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The Paradox of Eminem: Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
It was a warm August afternoon, and all of the windows of my apartment were wide open. I could hear the playful screams of several young kids in the alleyway below. I had decided to listen to the newly purchased "Marshall Mathers LP" as I prepared my lunch in the kitchen, so I had to pump up the volume on my audio system in order to hear it. A voice bellowed: "This is another public service announcement brought to you in part by Slim Shady. Slim Shady does not give a fuck what you think. If you don’t like it, you can suck his fucking cock. Little did you know upon purchasing this album, you have just kissed his ass. Slim Shady is fed up with your shit. Anything else? Yeah, sue me." (Read more...)
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Of Wright and Renaissance
by Cameron Pritchard
Upon entering Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York one is immediately struck with awe. This is a building like no other, an organic entity rising from the ground and taking you on its spiral ascent to the heavens - the heavens that only a man of Wright's brilliance could reach. The spirit of Wright's heroic vision and the material substance of the building are thrust together to create an experience at once intellectual and emotional. The Guggenheim boasts an "extended, expansive, well-proportioned floor space from bottom to top … no stops anywhere … gloriously lit from above." The building is a temple to life on earth - and yet one feels as if one is truly in the presence of a god. The god is Wright - whose gigantic presence haunts the building and makes one realize what we Objectivists might call "the total passion for the total height." (Read more...)
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Headbanging Caterwaulers
by Derek McGovern
It was one of Lindsay’s editorials on the Politically Incorrect Show that set me off. The subject was quintessential Perigo: the mindlessness of contemporary popular music. Dismissing many of today’s musical fads as "unmitigated garbage," he went on to question how supposedly rational people could embrace such "caterwauling." (Read more...)
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Fire In The Groin
by Derek McGovern
Now be honest! How many of you looked at the cover of the last Free Radical and thought to yourselves: Oh no, not Mario Lanza again! What is it with Perigo and that guy? Why does he have to keep ramming him down our throats? I mean, it’s not like Lanza was a libertarian! (Read more...)
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Voice in the night
by Derek McGovern
Overhead the moon is beaming
White as blossoms on the bough
Nothing is heard but the song of a bird
Filling all the air with dreaming... (Read more...)
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Embracing Ellsworth
by James M. Jowdy
Instead of the present article, I originally intended to write a follow-up to David C. Adams's Issue #39 contribution, Exterminating Ellsworth. I wanted to give a concrete example of how the sneering and philosophically destructive spirit of Ellsworth Toohey — arch-villain from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead — merely pervades the 1999 film The Fight Club. Unfortunately, things seem worse than I initially imagined and, if this film and its wide acclaim are any indication, Ellsworth has nearly won. (Read more...)
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Novels for the Libertarian Soul
by David Bertelsen
Reviews of Chocolat by Joanne Harris and Full Circle by Bob Jones. (Read more...)
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Reason, Freedom & Excitement
by Michael Koziarski
As our state slides further down the slope from freedom to increased state control, the readers of this magazine may, quite rightly, become increasingly agitated. As our nation's "philosophers" become more and more irrational and subjectivistic, students of philosophy may, quite rightly, also become more and more agitated. Yet as our nation's composers, writers, film-makers, sculptors and painters slip down the corollary slope for artistic endeavours, almost no one speaks out. It seems that while, thanks to the efforts of The Free Radical and, increasingly, Objectivist Forums, people know a breach of rights or irrational thinking when they see it, no one notices the artistic equivalents of these things. (Read more...)
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Boys Don’t Cry
by Robert White
Brandon Teena turned up on the front door of his girlfriend’s home at 6.00 am Christmas morning in 1993, bruised and bloodied. He had been exposed, earlier that morning, as a woman. He had also been raped by his two closest friends, including the man he regarded as a role model, and as a type of father figure. Three days later, at the age of 21, Brandon Teena was shot dead by the men who had raped him, and then he was stabbed, and then shot again. An unspent bullet was found on the floor, between Brandon Teena’s legs, a testament to the small-minded hate that prematurely snuffed out a life. (Read more...)
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Dead Poets Society
by Robert White
Few works of art affect me as profoundly as the Dead Poets Society. It arouses my emotions, inflames my mind and inspires my soul. It carries me to the heights of ecstasy, and reduces me to tears. I have watched the Dead Poets Society many times over the past eleven years, and each time I see it my love for it deepens, as my love for it becomes more conscious. A great work of art is like a great woman - it caresses the soul, stirs the passions, excites the imagination and leaves one feeling alive - where feeling alive means not a grey, undifferentiated weight, but a command to rise - a command to seize the day, and make one's life extraordinary. Dead Poets Society is set at the Welton Academy, an elite preparatory school for boys. The four pillars of the school's philosophy are: tradition, honour, discipline and excellence. John Keating (played by Robin Williams) is an ex-pupil of the school and its new English teacher. He believes that the purpose of education is to teach students to think for themselves. This belief brings him into conflict with the school's administration. (Read more...)
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Terrorism and Postmodern Art
by Michael Newberry
A Wonder of the World. Gone. To witness the obliteration of those glowing, lithe twins was a shock beyond comprehension. They were so playful; light danced on them as they stretched up towards the sky. They were so free; you could not say that they stood tall with pride because they were so unselfconscious of their beauty and height. They were so innocent; they believed in friendship, progress, creation, and joy. They were. (Read more...)
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