Posts Tagged ‘ Objectivism ’

Rape The Poor, Taxi’s Must Be Regulated!

Watching what can only be described as liberal media is a sort of hobby of mine. Back in July I wrote an article concerning a simply hilarious piece by Kevin Drum over at Mother Jones wherein regulation is defended as deregulation. When a publication produces something as good or as bad as that was,...
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Robbie Hance the missing hero

The tramp’s suit was a mass of careful patches on a cloth so stiff and shiny with wear that one expected it to crack like glass if bent; but she noticed the collar of his shirt: it was bone-white from repeated laundering and it still preserved a semblance of shape. He had pulled himself...
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Can We Please Move Past Apple’s Silly, Faux-Real UIs? – Tom Hobbs

Atlas Shrugged Part II Trailer

The last part of Atlas Shrugged series involved wooden acting, downright ugly plot changes, and serious philosophical misunderstandings. I rated it 6 out 10, and I was giving it credit for being based on a book I liked. This part seems somewhat better, so far…
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Video: Democracies, Republics and other unnecessary evils

Two hundred and thirty six years after a democratic republic called the United States of America was signed into existence by its founders we assembled to consider what our present systems really look like in practice, and discuss some alternatives. Jan C Lester provides his definition and commentary and sets out why he thinks...
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Why Bad Economics Won’t Go Away

The Young Briton’s Foundation has invited Yaron Brook to Parliament to answer a fascinating question: Why is it that people don’t seem to learn from experience? It is clear that our existing Keynesian economic policies have failed miserably. We can compare controlled economies with those less controlled, and compare more regulated sectors of our...
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IEA Occasional Lecture: Why Government keeps growing with Yaron Brook

Yaron Brook will speak for IEA to argue that “to successfully stop the growth of the state, Americans will have to discover that laissez-faire capitalism is the only moral system – one that must be defended without guilt”. The talk will take place at IEA, 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1 on 19 June...
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The Ayn Rand Lecture: The Long-term Consequences of the Financial Crisis

The ASI’s Ayn Rand Lecture will be presented by John Allison and will examine the “Long-term Consequences of the Financial Crisis”: John Allison held during the height of the financial crisis and his banking principles are largely seen as the reason behind his bank’s relative success during the financial crisis....
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Atlas Failed

So I finally got round to reading Atlas Shrugged, and now the blood has stopped flowing from my eyes I wanted to share a few impressions. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! To start with, the positives. I thought the plot was very good, indeed it could almost be the novelisation of the Road to Serfdom. It...
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Honesty is a virtue that George Monbiot does not possess

Reason, purpose, self-esteem, independence, productivity, justice, integrity and honesty are the key virtues of the objectivist system. They are the primary secondary and tertiary corolaries of Rand’s metaphysical observation that what is real is objectively real, regardless of your opinion. That existence exists, and we aren’t making it up. In contrast, George Monbiot’s mendacious...
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