Archive: Mini-Reviews

From the article "Striving for Individualism" in today's San Francisco Examiner: Facing New York has had plenty of opportunities to make more money. While music-industry people have offered lucrative deals in exchange for control over their ... »More

Based upon the trailer, the new movie 300 appears to glorify virtues like strength, courage, and determination. No wonder, then, that so many liberal reviewers are dismissing it. The following excerpt, from a recent interview ... »More

From 1960s Rand associate Bob Hessen: I warmly recommend THE LIVES OF OTHERS, dealing with East Germany before its collapse in 1989. The secret police (the "Stasi") spy on the lives of everyone suspected of ... »More

In November I finally bought a copy of the album Far from You and Your Everyday Noise by a new Wisconsin band called "The Profits" -- since re-christened "We the Living" and scheduled to release ... »More

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged was recently touted in the student newspaper of the University of Rhode Island, The Good 5¢ Cigar. Normally, that might not be of much interest outside the student body of URI. But ... »More

Sent to us by an, er, anonymous movie enthusiast: Last night I saw the new SF film A Scanner Darkly. I thought it was totally incomprehensible and awful and was tempted to demand a refund. In ... »More

The Summer 2006 issue of The Objective Standard is out, and is now available on their web site. I've not read the issue, but the premise behind Dianne Durante's article on "Getting More Enjoyment from ... »More

Leading talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh recently endorsed, on the air, Henry Mark Holzer's new book, The Keeper of the Flame: The Supreme Court Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas. Holzer was Ayn Rand's lawyer in the 1960s, and ... »More

The Variety article that has sparked so much discussion about an Atlas Shrugged movie also provided this update on the prospects of a new Fountainhead movie: Oliver Stone was attached to direct a remake of "Fountainhead" ... »More

More than a few fans of Ayn Rand's novels are also fans of Joss Whedon's ill-fated Firefly television series. For background, see Monica White's review of Firefly and Jeff Perren's review of Serenity, and our ... »More