https://youtu.be/ACkiKVtF3nU I have watched this installment of “Frontline” three, or maybe even four, times since it first aired in 2009. If anything I think it goes easy on Bill Clinton, by not pointing out that at the end of his administration he agreed to ending the Glass-Steagall Act. Steve Ditko’s take on Ayn Rand’s philosophy … Continue reading The Failure of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism
A few days ago, while catching up on the sections of the Boston Sunday Globe I hadn’t read yet, I was impressed with a book review written by Michael Washburn, who has high praise for Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, by Mary Gabriel. Washburn starts by saying… … Continue reading Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, and Barbara Eden
Denro points out that comic book artist Joe Staton has illustrated a graphic novel adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem. I’ve read The Fountainhead, and every single page of Atlas Shrugged too (well, maybe I skipped a few in John Galt’s redundant 60-page diatribe), but I have never read Anthem. Amazon has it for only … Continue reading Any Darn way to read Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand was a romance novelist. L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer. They each decided that they had profound things to say, and Rand came up with a pseudo-philosophy she called Objectivism, while Hubbard dubbed his pop psychology Dianetics. But in my opinion they both wrote nothing but fiction for their entire careers. … Continue reading Ayn Rand’s Romanticism
When Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize for Economics a couple of months ago, I said it’s time to leave Milton Friedman behind. Now somebody at Newsweek is wondering the same thing I am about Ayn Rand. Can her ideas survive the economic crisis? Ayn Rand, full of her fetishes and obsessions, sure wrote some … Continue reading The Randayn View
An article in The Objectivist Standard has a remembrance of Steve Ditko by someone who seemed to have been inspired by Ditko’s comic book stories to look into the the ideas of Ayn Rand.
