Japan faces more confusion amid leadership vote – Yahoo! News
Japan — which is set to see its sixth prime minister in five years — has fumbled recently to find leadership to tackle formidable challenges, including recovery from a massive earthquake and tsunami in March and the battle to bring a nuclear power plant sent into meltdown by the disasters under control. Even before the [...]
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 [...]
Yoko Ono on Japan’s Devastation, Dating and Discovering John Lennon’s Genius – Spinner Canada
Yoko Ono on Japan’s Devastation, Dating and Discovering John Lennon’s Genius – Spinner Canada. “The clamor of indignation that rose against Howard Roark and his temple astonished everyone, except Ellsworth Toohey. Ministers damned the building in sermons. Women’s clubs passed resolutions of protest. A Committee of Mothers made page eight of the newspapers, with a [...]
Key ideas – a list in progress
Camouflaged ! Originally uploaded by Kamala L See the picture? Can you help her pick out the handful of items that she really needs to keep? What are the key ideas in the field you are teaching? If you are teaching American history or culture or literature, what are the key ideas that you think [...]
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 [...]
Why I no longer read John Derbyshire
Image via Wikipedia Update: Derbyshire’s homepage at Taki magazine includes links to some of my favourite libertarians/Austrian economists, such as Tom Woods, Karen de Coste, Peter Schiff, Justin Raimondo and Paul Gottfried (OK, I’m not sure Gottfried is a libertarian and he’s probably not an Austrian economist, but I like what he writes update: but [...]
Why I don’t read newspapers
Image via Wikipedia More specifically, I don’t read opinion pieces. Here’s an example of why I don’t. In the Dec. 24th edition of the Financial Times, Harry Eyres wrote in a piece called Human beings or human resources? … the Enlightenment project of raising human reason to god-like power has had disturbing results. These can [...]
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 [...]
