Regarding economics, if you haven’t read Ayn Rand lately, I suggest that you do as her books pretty well capture the mindset. This new administration hates weak, unproductive, socialist people and policies, and it admires strong, can-do, profit makers. It wants to, and probably will, shift the environment from on...(Read more...)
A separate grant from BB&T funds a course on ethics and economics in which Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is required reading. The novel, which depicts society's collapse in the wake of government encroachment on free enterprise, was recently made into a movie marketed to tea party members.(Read more...)
Studying the minutiae of the events leading to the financial crisis brought to mind some lessons from his famous friendship, from the 1950s on, with the late Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand. He says that Rand didn't influence him politically—he was always a libertarian—but she did point out tensions in his philosophy ...(Read more...)
"Ayn Rand's Courage", by Marcos Aguinis, a very popular writer, published in La Nacion, the second largest newspaper in Argentina (aka Statism Paradise). This is a moment to treasure. And many of the comments are very positive... So all is not lost.(Read more...)
Joe Pulitzer would be proud. One of the fathers of yellow journalism, he loved sensationalism, scandal, and populist rants. His intellectual heirs carry on his work at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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In Newsweek: "As Washington's economic dictator says in Ayn Rand's far-sighted novel Atlas Shrugged, 'We've got to stand still. We've got to make those bastards stand still!'" (Read more...)
