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Personal liberty, freedom, choice, autonomy… all of these things have one fundamental component in common: their focus on the individual — “I.” It is so simple a word and yet its use conveys the most powerful emotions and desires we, as humans, can conjure. To say that “I” need, want, feel, believe, aspire to [insert …
I was fortunate to be invited to a pre-screening of Atlas Shrugged: Part II on October 6th. This event was sponsored by the Atlas Society and was attended by liberty-loving folks from all over the DC area. Quick note: The second movie continued right off where Part I ended. Some have suggested you can watch …
According to some people, Steve Jobs was a maniacal business man: he was someone who treated his employees like chattel and mistreated his supposed inferiors. To others, he was the apotheosis of everything digital: a man who ushered in 22st century digitized items to a 20thcentury hoi polloi; the same crowd sees Jobs as …
Here’s a blog I wrote on Ayn Rand and her influential novel, Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’ was recently put into movie form and her works—plays, books, and essays– have experienced a surge in purchases. You may think that the fad is just no big deal and will die out as soon as …
Our battle is not simply one between competing political ideologies and policy decisions. Instead, our fight extends far beyond political implications into the very heart of this nation’s true issue: a failure in philosophical doctrine. While our opponents rest with the philosophy of forced altruism, the idea that says people should be required to sacrifice …
Well…sort of: A man — Nick Newcomen — drew this by driving across thirty states with a GPS device. Yes, that’s right, by driving across thirty states. Now that’s a Randian if I ever saw one. Perhaps Canada ought to read “Who is John Galt?” next. Kudos to wired.
This is all humour of course, but whether you like Rand (as I do, to an extent) or if you hate her, it’s cleverly correct to an extent. Kudos to Cracked’s article on Rand. An excerpt from the article: The works of Ayn Rand include Atlas Shrugged, a popular novel on the evils of government regulations; The …
I’d like to start a mini-series of sorts dealing with one of the best ways to communicate a message: music. The series will include songs that have been referenced by YAL in YAR as being freedom-based, but I will also be pulling other songs that have a specifically freedom-based or anti-statist/authoritarian message. I introduce to …
As a student at Dixon High School, which is located in the rather conservative community of Dixon, CA, I never expected to see collectivism so boldly embraced by faculty members. Today, Friday, Dec. 11th, I had the amazing pleasure of arguing with a biology teacher who had the audacity to say, “There should be …
This book by Ayn Rand’s heir, Leonard Peikoff, is an arresting depiction of the “ominous parallels” between America today and the chaos of pre-Hitler Germany. I highly recommend it to my fellow liberty-lovers. This review via LewRockwell.com sums it up rather well. Here’s what Ayn Rand had to say about it: If you do not …
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