How to recognize randroids with no intellectual integrity: at some point, they repeat the talking point that Atlas Shrugged is "the second most influential book of all time after the Bible" - which when you dig is based on the single data point of one dubious poll by the Library of Congress decades ago in which randroids somehow self-selected as a ( Read more... )

At a meeting organized by old objectivists, I got thinking about all those "liberals" (US word for socialists) who so hate Ayn Rand they can't even hear her name without becoming angry, much less articulate a truthful account of her ideas that they could rebuke. They can't even try to put themselves in her shoes, feel like her, rejoice at the ( Read more... )

A friend and colleague of mine inquires as to my reactions to David Brin's review of Atlas Shrugged, the movieUnhappily, Brin's criticism of Ayn Rand is totally off-mark ( Read more... )

In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand tells us of a composer named Halley, whose Fifth Piano Concerto she describes thus:
It was a symphony of triumph ( Read more... )

Quand je découvris Atlas Shrugged d'Ayn Rand (grâce à Jacques de Guenin), je fus estomaqué. Je me dis que si un tel livre n'existait pas, il aurait fallu l'inventer. Tellement étranger à la pensée unique française dans laquelle j'avais si longtemps baigné, plein d'un sens de la vie si réjouissant ( Read more... )

Whenever I am called an extremist, usually by people who call for a Third Way between capitalism and socialism (just like Benito Mussolini did), I like to tell one or both of these two stories. A short form of the first story has long been in my quote collection.

Chaque fois que je suis appelé un extrémiste ( Read more... )

While in the States, I had an argument with, of all persons, a French man ( Read more... )

Today is the centenary of the birthday of Ayn Rand, the great thinker of Liberty, who alone dared to defend Capitalism on moral grounds! Let's celebrate, together with the ISIL, Libertarian International, or the french ADEL!

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Cette semaine, j'ai fini de traduire en français Philosophy: Who Needs It. Les non-anglophones pourront donc découvrir, modulo les lacunes de ma traduction, ce chef d'oeuvre de Ayn Rand: La philosophie: qui en a besoin.
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