Wednesday
December 31, 2003 |
 AR--Ayn Rand: Audacious Revolutionary!
by Lindsay Perigo
Since I'm still in seasonally nostalgic mode, let me reminisce about the day Ayn Rand died, twenty-one years ago. (Read more...)
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 A Question of Loyalty: A "Saddamite" Responds to Perigo
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
The truth is, of course, that I am not a Saddamite. But it is very hard to discern exactly who is a Saddamite from Lindsay Perigo's essay "Saddam's Succours #3" or from essays #1 or #2 for that matter. I wish he'd name names. So, at the risk of buying into that old Carly Simon lyric, "You're so vain, You probably think this song is about you," I think a response to Perigo is necessary. (Read more...)
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Rights and the US Constitution
by Tibor R. Machan
It is a well known refrain of some conservative legal scholars - the most famous of them being Robert Bork - that there is no constitutional right to privacy in our country. (Read more...)
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Determinism, Skepticism, Mysticism and Subjectivism: Four roads to hell
by Henry Emrich
To be sure, there are numerous variants of them all, so we're in no danger of them becoming stale. (Read more...)
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Abortion: Reconsidering Personal Responsibility and Political Responsibility
by Francois Tremblay
The issue of abortion is a "hot button" issue. The masses see it as a war between "family values" and personal choice, between murder, female emancipation, convenience, amidst complaints that "they should just use condoms!".
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 The Ten Commitments
by Barry Kayton
What does Ayn Rand's philosophy mean to you in practice? (Read more...)
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Confusing the Issue
by Joseph Rowlands
One problem with arguing with a theist about god is that their position becomes increasingly more abstract. (Read more...)
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Iran Earthquake - God Dunnit
by David Bertelsen
Strike up a few more lives to the death toll reaped by religion this century. (Read more...)
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Can Capitalism Survive?
by Lindsay Perigo
The despicable deeds of sundry terrorist scum, including & since those of September 11, 2001, have been widely & accurately characterised as an assault on civilisation itself. (Read more...)
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 Critics of Objectivism: "I was Howard Roark!"
by Henry Emrich
Allowing our viewpoint to be incessantly slandered and mischaracterized does NOT demonstrate our rationality, or our commitment to Individual Freedom. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
January 14, 2004 |
 The Simpsons (Doh, Simpletons)
by Marcus Bachler
"The Simpsons" is a TV program that gets right up my nose! It is a satire that draws most of its humour by poking fun at the Homer Simpson's stupidity and incompetence. It glorifies the trivial and mundane in life – with nothing better to offer. (Read more...)
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The Rational Man’s Dilemma
by G. Stolyarov II
A key notion in Objectivist thought is the withholding of the sanction of the victim, the tacit compliance of a man with the violations of his own rights. It becomes evident that today's dismal political state, which will inevitably thrust itself into nearly every area of every man's private life, cannot be ignored or passively endured. Yet, with the assault occurring on so many fronts, how does one select one's battles in order to deal the enemy a critical blow, and what tactics are permissible in the undertaking of such endeavors? (Read more...)
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 Bogeyman Be Gone: Reflections on Nyctophobia and Child-Rearing
by Barry Kayton
Imagine you're six years old. Imagine it's late at night. (Read more...)
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Ellsworth Toohey - Time For A Regime Change
by Lindsay Perigo
In last week's article I noted that the most ardent practitioners of the ethic of self-sacrifice in our time are not Christians, but Muslims – to wit, the suicide bombers. (Read more...)
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Carl Menger's Economics of Well-Being: Almost Objectivism
by Edward W. Younkins
Carl Menger (1840-1921) began the modern period of economic thought and provided the foundation for the Austrian School of Economics. In his two books, Principles of Economics (1871) and Investigations into the Method of the Social Science with Special Reference to Economics (1883), Menger destroyed the existing structure of economic science, including both its theory and methodology, and put it on totally new foundations. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
January 21, 2004 |
 Converting to Objectivism
by Joe Trusnik
Six months ago, having left a religious forum I moderated because I could no longer give an intellectual sanction due to its general intolerance of any who might actually defend their points of view with reason, I found SOLO through a Yahoo search. (Read more...)
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Organo-centrism as Racism
by Francois Tremblay
Around the middle of the movie "AI: Artificial Intelligence", there is a scene that takes place at the "Flesh Fair" arena, where androids are destroyed in violent ways, cheered on by a crowd of hate-filled rednecks. Even if you are organo-centric, it would be hard not to be moved by this scene. And the analogy between that and the Coliseum, between AI slavery and human slavery, is obvious. (Read more...)
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The Mutability of Past
by G. Stolyarov II
"Before our very eyes, history is being transformed into politically correct fantasy."
~ Paul Craig Roberts (Read more...)
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Johann Strauss - Honorary SOLOist!
by Lindsay Perigo
"An evocative bow at almost a fairy-tale Vienna, a Vienna of young hussars & beautiful ladies, a Vienna of sentimentality & charm. A pretty-pretty & never-never Vienna of dance & romance."
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A Petition of the Software Merchants
by Adam Reed
On January 8, 2004, Darl McBride, president and CEO of the SCO Group, Inc., sent to US Senators and members of the House of Representatives a letter urging them to restrict, by law, the development of open source software. (Read more...)
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The Myth of Market Failures
by Tibor R. Machan
Although the idea is widely taught in undergraduate and graduate economics courses, there is very little to it, when you look closely. Market failures are either trivial conditions no one can be justly upset about or they simply do not exist at all. (Read more...)
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Presentation
by Elizabeth Kanabe
We all have images of people who don't quite seem to fit their 'status': the young genius, the crazy inventor, the hippie with a million dollar software company. We like to think that people are judged solely for their personality, ideas and contributions, and products are judged for quality. More often, though, we see businessmen in a suit. We know that appearance and delivery does account for a lot when dealing with others. (Read more...)
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Musical Mirth
by Lindsay Perigo
Two dear friends have sent me some seasonal cheer of a liquid red variety - already consumed, alas - & a little volume called Quotations from the World of Music. (Read more...)
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Can the Ideas of Mises and Rand Be Reconciled?
by Edward W. Younkins
Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), the Austrian philosophical economist and social thinker is one of our most passionate, consistent, and intransigent defenders of capitalism. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
February 4, 2004 |
An Objective Filosofy of Linguistics: Installment I
by G. Stolyarov II
In this article I argue from reason and individualism for a scientific system of orthografy which permits no arbitrary social conventions to rule one's speech. As a first step toward the full systematization of English, I propose a time-saving spelling reform. (Read more...)
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