PART TWO OF TWO PARTS In the previous post I discussed the Ayn Rand novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’, and how the intent of that novel is most relevant right now. So, then how does something like this apply to the current situation we are in now? Is it just following something from a fiction novel...

The second personage of the Libertarian Chick Triumvirate is the grand duchess of liberty herself, Ayn Rand—who was a contemporary of fellow founder of modern libertarianism Rose Wilder Lane , whom I featured a couple days ago. The downside of Ayn Rand is the debating society, known as libertarian...

Brad DeLong reminds conservatives that John Galt’s views on religion probably don’t coincide with theirs: What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that...

Via Matt Yglesias, may I present Representative John Campbell, who lets us all know that our betters are outraged, outraged I tell you at the economic policies of the president: Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), who gives his departing interns copies of Ayn Rand’s novel "Atlas Shrugged," told me ...

As Stephen Gordon notes, a meme has arisen among some righty bloggers that purports to echo the spirit of Ayn Rand’s iconic hero: Michelle Malkin has begun hammering the “Going Galt” theme, and it’s the subject of a long post by Melissa Clouthier today, and Donald Douglas als...

Michelle Malkin TonyfromOz prefaces ….. The reference in the title refers to one of the main characters in the book ‘Atlas Shrugged‘ written by Ayn Rand in 1957. If you haven’t read this book, I urge you to get a copy. It’s as relevant now as it was when it was first wr...

All of the government's pesky market intrusions have people snapping up copies of Atlas Shrugged like they were bailout packages. Since it's not like Ayn Rand's laissez-faire fantasies got us into this mess. Former Fed chair Alan Greenspan, architect of the endless free credit of the 2000s, was famo...

Bill Vallicella again offers some helpful comments on Randian "philosophy." This time he takes on one of the favorite atheological arguments of the Objectivist: that "Existence exists!" implies that "God doesn't exist." Here's a relevant quote from Peikoff, Existence exists, and only existence exist...

In her best-seller, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand created a character, probably known to most of the people who read this blog. His name was John Galt. Galt was Rand’s archetypal hero — a self-made, successful man, who resented the “looters” (the mob of union members, the envious,...

Image via Wikipedia By Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair We are at a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future economic policy is a debate over history -- here are the major mistakes that got us here. There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and t...