 Sicking The Saddamites #4 - The Honorable Senator Kennedy
by James Kilbourne
As we await the results of the first free election in Iraqi history, Ted Kennedy has declared that our policies for the War on Terror are a complete failure and that we need to pull out of Iraq and admit this fact. (Read more...)
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Freedomist vs. Libertarian -- A Debate Challenge
by R.J. Rummel
Because I depart so strongly from most libertarians in supporting President Bush's foreign policy and war on terror, but am a libertarian on domestic policy, I sugggest a new term for libertarians who agree with me. We are freedomists. Our philosophy is freedomism. On this I challenge libertarians who oppose Bush's foreign policy to a debate on my blog: Freedomist vs. Libertarian
My email is: rummel@hawaii.edu (Read more...)
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Calling All Objectivists To Ogle Moogul!
by Luke Setzer
Moogul allows anyone to post anything to their site to lend to anyone according to mutually agreeable terms and conditions. Although few Objectivist items currently populate the site, the service could supply a boon to SOLO members who want a reliable way to lend and to borrow Objectivist materials. (Read more...)
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Be Proud, Modern Patriots!
by Eric J. Tower
For too long now patriotism has been synonymous with nationalism—a most bitter and evil form of collectivism. This title of 'patriot' is a title of virtue that we cannot afford to abandon to the enemies of freedom. It is time to reclaim it, modern patriot, and tout it with pride. A patriot defends liberty, not the will of the collective! (Read more...)
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Ayn Rand At The APA In Boston - A Brief Report
by Fred Seddon
I have been going to this convention since the late 80s and this is the first time Rand has been given so much attention. (Read more...)
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Thursday
December 30, 2004 |
Political Correctness Threatens Free Society
by Edward W. Younkins
Political correctness involves the translation of Marxism from economic terms into cultural terms. The premise underlying political correctness is that if the elite can change the language then they can change the way individuals act and thus change society. Political correctness has corrupted the news media, universit... (Read more...)
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Rousseau And Kant - Partners In Crime
by Lindsay Perigo
Objectivists looking to promote a renaissance of Enlightenment values may legitimately identify Kant’s teachings as pernicious; let us not, however, overlook the influence of his partner-in-crime, Rousseau. (Read more...)
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A Response To Robert Bidinotto
by Lindsay Perigo
A friend who doesn’t speak the truth as he sees it is not a friend at all, in my book. And yes, it cuts both ways. (Read more...)
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The Plague of Postmodernism
by Edward W. Younkins
Proponents of postmodernism, the most active intellectual movement of the late 20th century, have replaced reality with subjective and noncommensurable social-linguistic constructs that vary across conflicting groups based on dimensions such as sex, ethnicity, race, religion, and wealth. The language and logic of each group is seen to be a function of its own conventional internal system. Given the postmodernist view that there is no connection of language to a non-linguistic reality, words are to be used as rhetorical weapons in a battle of competing wills involving the coercive assertion of each group’s interests. (Read more...)
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Synergizing Meetup With SOLO
by Luke Setzer
I intend to send this letter to all organizers of Ayn Rand Meetup across the globe. I request suggestions from SOLO readers for style and content. Eventually, I will also approach other existing Objectivist Clubs using a similar letter. (Read more...)
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Yet Another Open Letter to Chris Matthew Sciabarra
by George W. Cordero
So for those Bush haters out there, if you want someone to blame, blame Sally and Jose. The people wearing crucifixes voted as they always do. (Read more...)
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Free-Market Environmentalism
by Edward W. Younkins
Without free markets, nature would be left to the mercy of the state. Central planning is made impossible by the nature of the universe. Government just does not have the means to acquire the detailed information dispersed throughout the world that is essential for efficiency, technological change, and care of the environment. The socialist world suffers from the worst pollution on earth. (Read more...)
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A Condemnation and a Letter
by Bob Palin
As you can see, Susan, the more I quote from Nakken, the more sarcastic I become. It is because I find his ideas so repugnant. The philosophical ideas behind this book are so contrary to my own philosophy, I find it difficult to not get passionately angered. I can do nothing less than morally condemn The Addictive Personality.
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Wednesday
November 17, 2004 |
 Nathaniel Branden Interview, Pt. 3
by Alec Mouhibian
Humor, Moral Judgment and Homosexuality (Read more...)
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Nathaniel Branden Interview, Pt. 2
by Alec Mouhibian
[Editor's Note: As a special treat for SOLOists, I'm reproducing here the much-acclaimed interview with Nathaniel Branden published in Issue 64 of 'The Free Radical.' I don't usually publish material from the hard-copy version so soon after it has come out, and I would not want to encourage folk to think I'm going to make a habit of this or that they should not subscribe to 'The Free Radical' in hard-copy. A website print-out is no substitute for the beauty of the original. And most of the hard-copy content is never posted on-line *at all*. I'm making an exception in this case because I know there's a great desire on the part of many SOLOists to "chew" many of the points made by Nathaniel in this interview (so ably conducted by Alec Mouhibian, who more than lived up to my trust in him to deliver a scintillating result). Posting the interview here on SOLOHQ, of course, does enable it to be "chewed." I'm spreading it out over four nights. Tonight: Part Two ... Rand, Psychology, Ideology and more. - Linz] (Read more...)
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Nathaniel Branden Interview, Pt. 1
by Alec Mouhibian
[Editor's Note: As a special treat for SOLOists, I'm reproducing here the much-acclaimed interview with Nathaniel Branden published in Issue 64 of 'The Free Radical.' I don't usually publish material from the hard-copy version so soon after it has come out, and I would not want to encourage folk to think I'm going to make a habit of this or that they should not subscribe to 'The Free Radical' in hard-copy. A website print-out is no substitute for the beauty of the original. And most of the hard-copy content is never posted on-line *at all*.
I'm making an exception in this case because I know there's a great desire on the part of many SOLOists to "chew" many of the points made by Nathaniel in this interview (so ably conducted by Alec Mouhibian, who more than lived up to my trust in him to deliver a scintillating result). Posting the interview here on SOLOHQ, of course, does enable it to be "chewed." I'll be spreading it out over four nights, beginning tonight with Part One ... Introduction and Current Events - Linz] (Read more...)
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Saturday
November 13, 2004 |
A Modest Proposal
by Eric J. Tower
For the prevention of the productive and more able members of New York State from brining harm to the assistance dependent, the less fortunate or their government servants; And for making them better servants of their fellow man. (Read more...)
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A Ban on Objectivist Cloning
by Joseph Rowlands
If ideas are destroying the world, provide better ideas. (Read more...)
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U.S. Election Outcome - Still in Two Minds!
by Ashley Chan
Below is a summarised compilation of various email correspondences to and from colleagues based in Hong Kong and the States, regarding the outcome of the U.S. election. These were all hastily written, so I apologise in advance for any logical flaws and illogical assertions! Plus I have done the compilation, so my biases are evident. But they do offer a different viewpoint. (Read more...)
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Of Orion, Islam ... and the Contest of Ideas
by Lindsay Perigo
The long & the short of this is that I have no perfect answer - but I'm always going to err on the side of the open exchange of ideas, even though I'm under no obligation to. We've all always known that upholding freedom of expression means upholding that freedom for its least attractive practitioners, as Ayn Rand once put it. (Read more...)
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The Matter Of Matt
by Lindsay Perigo
Most of the time I have kept quiet, in the interests of free & open discussion, which is part of Objectivism as it might be and ought to be. Occasionally I have exploded - & then the issue has become ... not appeasement, not Saddamism, not the filth that is Islam, not the mass torture/murder that Osama/Saddam want to install in place of everything we hold dear ... none of those things ... the issue has become: Linz hurt someone's feelings. (Read more...)
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"Logic Has Nothing To Do With Reality." Yeah, Right!
by Lindsay Perigo
An attack on the perversion of philosophy exemplified in contemporary academia, which attack sparked a long exchange on the nature of logic, in which even David Kelley weighed in on the side of logic divorced from empirical fact. (Read more...)
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The Sky Is Falling (or - Why I Believe that Everyone and Everything Sucks)
by George W. Cordero
If you ask me, there really is very little to live for. Obviously your only option is an armed revolution to overthrow this vile dictatorship that you live under. (Read more...)
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A Is A
by Luke Setzer
This Toastmasters speech served as a test speech for two different Evaluation Contests in 2003. The resulting evaluations proved insightful. Even the ones who disagreed with the precept that miracles cannot happen appreciated the demonstration of the prop. (Read more...)
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Listen Up!
by Lindsay Perigo
In lieu of a regular article tonight is this irregular article by me *about* articles! (Read more...)
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