
Results 1 - 20 of 82 in Rand, CO
aoe- a- a- Sam Harris and the New Islamophobes, Deconstructed
... a Muslim," the liberal intelligentsia has taken up the mantle of Islamophobia cloaked in objectivist garb. Harris meets Rand meets Griffith. Comment?
... is the only thing we all belong to"? What happened to that ? P.P.P.S. Life is more and more resembling an Ayn Rand novel. The pattern is, you start out Randian when you're a teen and then grow out of it and into conservatism. Hell, I think I may be ... Comment?
a- a- Reality TV exposes the devastation of...
... conflict between being a young person trying to figure your life out and claiming on the other side that God and Ayn Rand have given you all the answers." That would be pretty confusing, considering conservative Christianity and Randian Objectivism ... Comment?
aoe- a- a- Libertarian America: A conversation with Sheldon Richman
... the movement's ahistorical failure to identify the real adversary: corporatism. Randian baggage hurts too. I read [Ayn] Rand when I was first discovering libertarianism. I read the novels and the non-fiction essays. I'm not saying it's all uniformly ... Comment?
"Rand appeals to me on several levels," Johansen explained. "On literary grounds I believe she is a superb storyteller, totally fascinating. Comment?
Sam Harris and the New Islamophobes, Deconstructed
... a Muslim," the liberal intelligentsia has taken up the mantle of Islamophobia cloaked in objectivist garb. Harris meets Rand meets Griffith. Bush's Trix Doctrine viz. "freedom is god's gift to humanity," morphs into "freedom is the technological ... Comment?
Libertarian America: A conversation with Sheldon Richman
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... the movement's ahistorical failure to identify the real adversary: corporatism. Randian baggage hurts too. I read [Ayn] Rand when I was first discovering libertarianism. I read the novels and the non-fiction essays. I'm not saying it's all uniformly ... Comment?
A New Brand Of Conservatives Is Challenging The Way We Think About Local Problems
Ed Kilgore has noticed the dispute between individualists and communitarians on the Right. Comment?
aoe- a- a- Is the Entire Deficit Debate Based on a Big Mistake?
Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, the Tea Party Republicans, billionaire Peter Peterson and much of Wall Street really don't give a damn about facts or even about the debt. Comment?
10 Things That Would Have Made BioShock Infinite Perfect
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The honeymoon is over, and while I still say that BioShock Infinite is not only the game of the year, but probably of several years to come, The Brother With One F and I sat down and honestly critiqued what could have made this amazing game unstoppable. Comment?
Les Leopold: The Southern State Fast Becoming Ayn Rand's Vision of Paradise
... public policy that only makes sense if you deeply believe in the anti-collectivist, anti-altruist philosophy of Ayn Rand. It's what you get when you combine hatred for government with disgust for poor people. Tennessee starves what little government ... Comment?
aoe"aoe- a- a- Whole Foods' Better Business
Although he calls free enterprise and entrepreneurship the source of "unprecedented prosperity for humanity," Mackey challenges the philosophical vanguards of capitalism, Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman. Comment?
aoe- a- a- Debtors' prisons are back: how heart-warmingly Dickensian
The Scrooge who, pre-transformation, rebuffs a request to contribute to charity with, "Are there no prisons? And the Union workhouses, are they still in order?" - that guy expresses the Ayn Rand, anti-altruist philosophy that is all the rage on the right these days far more pithily than any of Rand's interminably long-winded heroes ever did. Comment?
Atlas Volunteers a Shrug
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... public policy that only makes sense if you believe deeply in the anti-collectivist, anti-altruist philosophy of Ayn Rand. It's what you get when you combine hatred for government with disgust for poor people. That's the lede of a piece by Les ... Comment?
Tennessee: Ayn Rand's vision of paradise
... public policy that only makes sense if you believe deeply in the anti-collectivist, anti-altruist philosophy of Ayn Rand. It's what you get when you combine hatred for government with disgust for poor people. Tennessee starves what little government ... Comment?
aoe- a- a- a- The Southern State Fast Becoming Ayn Rand's Vision of Paradise
... public policy that only makes sense if you believe deeply in the anti-collectivist, anti-altruist philosophy of Ayn Rand. It's what you get when you combine hatred for government with disgust for poor people. [....] In the Randian universe, it's not ... Comment?
Call it how it is: Obama's negotiations with the GOP economic terrorists have been a failure
"Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America's bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. Comment?
Debtors' prisons are back: how heart-warmingly Dickensian
... charity with, "Are there no prisons? And the Union workhouses, are they still in order?" - that guy expresses the Ayn Rand, anti-altruist philosophy that is all the rage on the right these days far more pithily than any of Rand's interminably ... Comment?
a- a- 'BioShock Infinite' makes great art from...
... from American history without simply aping it. In that first game, the key ingredient was the philosophy of Ayn Rand, fleshed out with anachronistic art deco design and period piece jazz. While this Randian milieu was a historical throwback, her ... Comment?
Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! begins where Atlas Shrugged leaves off, with the United States of America having devolved into the United Corporations of America and a world where the divide between the 99% and the 1% is ever prevalent. Comment?