Review of The Atlas Shrugged Film | The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG
Another excellent review of the movie of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged”. If only the movie lived up to the quality of these reviews. It looks like the people who made it were not equal to the task. It sounds like a movie version of Howard Roark’s Cortland Housing Project. Still, the movie distorts, and [...]
A White Nationalist Review of “Atlas Shrugged, Part I” | The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG
Let’s change the subject from “nuclear crisis”, “Fukushima” and “tsunami disaster” for a second. Ever since I heard that (finally) a movie had been made of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”, I’ve been dreading having to make up my mind whether I will go and see it or not. After reading this excellent review, however, I’ve [...]
Economics books that help you tell the future
Image via Wikipedia Historian and Austrian economist Gary North writes that many people are confused by the media’s pronouncements on gold, inflation and deflation: Self-Inflicted Confusion and Paralysis: Thinking About the Economy Without Understanding Economics If called upon to outline the arguments of each position, they could not do it. They have no idea of [...]
“The students will not tolerate the teacher having power in the classroom”
This is a reply to a comment kindly left by OldAndrew of Scenes from the Battleground blog, which was a reply to this blog entry. I originally just replied to OldAndrew’s comment in a comment, but my reply got too long for a comment. if students object to the very idea of the teacher being [...]
Learning from history
Image via Wikipedia Does history repeat itself? Can we learn anything from ancient civilizations, especially the ones that declined and fell? Nah! Thanks to scribd, I’m reading Ayn Rand-contemporary, Isabel Paterson’s “The God of the Machine”, which begins with a brief history of the Phoenicians, the Greeks and the Romans, and asks, for instance, why [...]
Atlas Shrugged revival
(The first part of this post is cross-posted from another blog of mine). As well as re-reading Atlas Shrugged for the next session of my Reading Group, I’ve also assigned The Fountainhead to a returnee student whose English is fluent. I’ve been creating worksheets for him, and will be posting them online, possibly here. According [...]
Why the John Galt strategy won’t work
Image by sushiesque via Flickr The Mogambo Guru (TMG, as he phrase it) is a regular contributor to Bonner and Wigginson’s “The Daily Reckoning” and in a recent piece he explains why the John Galt strategy won’t work, and at the same time, why Michelle Malkin‘s strategy won’t work, either: Dr. Helen Smith, who is [...]
