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Walter Donway: “The Struggle for Poetry’s Soul”

February 1, 2008 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Walter Donway just sent the following announcement, which explains the significance of his essay as well as anything I might hope to write: My brief essay "The Struggle for Poetry's Soul" just went up on the ... »More

UPDATES - Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship

January 30, 2008 - Posted by Joshua Zader
I've been working for several months now with Stephen Hicks of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship to create their new web site, which we just launched recently. They're doing some terrific work to promote an ... »More

Is the Alliance between Christianity and Capitalism Falling Apart?

January 6, 2008 - Posted by Joshua Zader
In an incisive column at TownHall.com, George Will points out that the alliance between religious conservatives and economic conservatives seems ready to crumble. Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is ... »More

Quotes from Clarence Thomas’s Biography

December 23, 2007 - Posted by Joshua Zader
From Atlasphere member Greg Feirman: I've been reading Clarence Thomas's autobiograpy and he seems to be a big Rand fan. I read Sowell's Atlasphere review of the book. But Thomas also explicitly references Rand in his book: ... »More

Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead in Course Syllabus at MIT

December 19, 2007 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Thanks to Atlasphere member Johann Gevers for pointing out that Ayn Rand is listed first among "the authors whose theories will be discussed" in the online course Capitalism and Its Critics being offered at the ... »More

Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif) gives all his interns a copy of Atlas Shrugged

December 6, 2007 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Reason Magazine has an excellent new article about Rep. John Campbell, who -- as we noted when he replaced Rand fan Christopher Cox who was picked to head the SEC -- is himself an admirer ... »More

Yaron Brook addresses “Predatory Lending” in Forbes Magazine

December 5, 2007 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Ayn Rand Institute Executive Director Yaron Brook has written an excellent new article, titled "Predatory Legislating," that was commissioned by and published in Forbes Magazine. »More

Tim Sykes up 14% for November, despite S&P

December 3, 2007 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Greg Feirman just alerted me that Star stock trader (and Ayn Rand enthusiast) Timothy Sykes is up 14% with his TIM Project for the month of November, while the S&P was down 4%. For background about ... »More

And Postmodern Art Takes It in the Nose

December 2, 2007 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Toddler fools the art world into buying his tomato ketchup paintings. »More

Celebrity Ayn Rand Fan: Grammy-winning R&B artist Van Hunt

November 30, 2007 - Posted by Joshua Zader
From The Examiner's article "The philosophy of Van Hunt": For Grammy-winning R&B artist Van Hunt, it all started back in high school. “I can still remember coming out of class one day in 10th grade, when a ... »More