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Zizek was writing for JARS and readers interested in Rand. He intentionally did not make it so complicated as to drive away readers. He is a Rand admirer and he is one of the foremost thinkers in philosophy today. When he says something about someone, it is listened to. People pay attention. They hate...
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As a student, I often find myself arguing with socialists. I have organised many debates with socialists, and am holding conferences in Austrian economics. Doing everything I can with my knowledge, in order to persuade socialists to understand economics, capitalism and rights... I am still young however...
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After carefully reading Tara Smith's books (Viable Values and Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics), and Rasmussen's paper A Groundwork for Rights, I'm convinced Ayn Rand provided a solid grounding for libertarian ethics. The problem is that Objectivists usually cloak their meta-ethical arguments...
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The concept of politicals rights are so new to the world that they are not well understood. I'd like to go over this rich kernel of Rand's book Virtue of Selfishness which deals with what rights are, from whence they come, and what they mean. Also quite interesting is her description of how the...
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Live Free or Move Hanging out with the young kids who want to turn New Hampshire into a libertarian paradise. By David Weigel Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at 6:45 PM ET KEENE, N.H.—My first interview with the city's antigovernment activists is happening in an RV that, technically at least...
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In Professor Carroll Quigley's work The Evolution of Civilizations Quigley outlined what he called the 7 stages of historical change within a civilization being mixture, gestation, expansion, conflict, universal empire, decay and invasion. Near the books conclusion Quigley states that: “At...
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Enjoy.
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Not sure if this has been posted before or not, but here is an interesting talk by Brian Doherty, the author of "Radicals for Capitalism:" http://fora.tv/2007/04/15/Radicals_for_Capitalism I've seen his book on the bookshelf, but never bought it simply because it was more money than I was...
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[quote user="Libertyandlife"] I take back some of my comments on Objectivism. Frankly I don't know too much about them to strongly criticize them. But I still think their cult of personality, support of Israel and war with Iran is creepy. [/quote] I know plenty about it being an Ex-randroid...
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What do you think of it? Does it have any valuable content that the Mises Institute does not already address? I've heard that book sales of Atlas Shrugged have skyrocketed and the ARI is making big time dough.