We are suddenly seeing an explosion of Atlas should Shrug columns and stories. This is the kind of thing that makes politics so unpredictable - you never know how far it will go.(Read more...)
Flying Magazine columnist Dick Karl wrote about aviation art in this 2006 article available online. The last third is about John Sanchez of Miami. The last line on Page 1 is the reference to Ayn Rand. On Page 2 is this:
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The article even mentions Robert Stadler's "disavowal of reason in exchange for political favor", and compares this to the similar actions of Alan Greenspan. (Read more...)
The spin the author puts on Ayn Rand convinces me she has probably not read her. Plus, the whole Greenspan association misrepresents Rand's ideas as well when she uses his actions to imply that something might be off with being objective. Either way, here is an Ayn Rand Sighting... (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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Of course, it is a dystopian view of what can happen if you fail to have any sort of moral compass, but its a very compelling game and I know quite a few people who decided to pick up Rand's works based on snippets of Objectivism found in bioshock. An quote from the game: -------- I am Andrew Ryan and I am here t...(Read more...)
