The ethos of Rush was clearly middle-class suburbia, as was its fan base. They were just three guys from the Toronto suburbs who wanted to make the best music they knew how. And they meant everything they said and did.
The Molinari Society will be holding its mostly-annual Eastern Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Philadelphia, 8-11 January 2020. Here’s the schedule info:…
In June 1963, when Nathaniel Branden published a piece on “Inherited Wealth” in The Objectivist Newsletter, he was still the beloved disciple of Ayn Rand, who reprinted his piece in…
Stoicism, particularly in its ethical and political aspects (a defense of individual self-mastery on the one hand and commercial society on the other – for the latter, see, e.g., Cicero’s…
Ayn Rand’s “Philosophy: Who Needs It?” seems to some people to be a stunning defense of the value of philosophy. To me, it reads like polemical, hyperbolic nonsense. It’s bad armchair psychology.*…
Ayn Rand has a new novel out. Sort of. Rand’s 1934 play Ideal, about an actress who seeks out six of her fans to discover whether they’re willing to fight…