Atlas laisse tomber
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...
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Triumph Theme for Halley's Fifth
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. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were...
View ArticleHow (not) to (re)view Atlas Shrugged, The Movie
A friend and colleague of mine inquires as to my reactions to David Brin's review of Atlas Shrugged, the movie. Unhappily, Brin's criticism of Ayn Rand is totally off-mark, and tells much more about...
View ArticleThe Ayn Rand Reader
In the last few months, I've read a few books by Ayn Rand. Each was quite an agreable surprise, despite my already knowing much about it. Recommended reads. I started We The Living in last november of...
View ArticleLibertarianism @ Japan
Last wednesday, I met Mr. Libertarianism @ Japan, one of the happy few japanese libertarians. Quite a nice fellow. Looking for libertarians to meet in Japan, I had found his site through these links...
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(These are notes freely inspired by Israël Kirzner's intervention in Aix early this month, as well as by my recent Ayn Rand readings and my own pet concerns. The brain who originally formalized most of...
View ArticleLa Philosophie: qui en a besoin
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...
View ArticleSpeech at a meeting in memory of Ayn Rand
Tonight, I spoke at the NYC Junto event organized by Victor Niederhoffer in memory of Ayn Rand. I had originally prepared a 25-minute speech, which surprisingly I have finished in advance (a premiere,...
View Article2005, Year of Ayn Rand
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...
View ArticleThe Usual Relativist Fallacies
While in the States, I had an argument with, of all persons, a French man. He argued for relativism, that true and false do not matter, and might not exist at all, that every situation is unique, etc....
View ArticleFour Stories about the Middle Way
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...
View ArticleHaters gonna hate
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...
View ArticleRandroid detection
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...
View ArticleThe Ayn Rand Reader
In the last few months, I've read a few books by Ayn Rand. Each was quite an agreable surprise, despite my already knowing much about it. Recommended reads. I started We The Living in last november of...
View ArticleLibertarianism @ Japan
Last wednesday, I met Mr. Libertarianism @ Japan, one of the happy few japanese libertarians. Quite a nice fellow. Looking for libertarians to meet in Japan, I had found his site through these links...
View ArticleEntrepreneurial Action
(These are notes freely inspired by Israël Kirzner's intervention in Aix early this month, as well as by my recent Ayn Rand readings and my own pet concerns. The brain who originally formalized most of...
View ArticleLa Philosophie: qui en a besoin
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...
View ArticleSpeech at a meeting in memory of Ayn Rand
Tonight, I spoke at the NYC Junto event organized by Victor Niederhoffer in memory of Ayn Rand. I had originally prepared a 25-minute speech, which surprisingly I have finished in advance (a premiere,...
View Article2005, Year of Ayn Rand
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...
View ArticleThe Usual Relativist Fallacies
While in the States, I had an argument with, of all persons, a French man. He argued for relativism, that true and false do not matter, and might not exist at all, that every situation is unique, etc....
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