July 2005

Fiction: Happy Slaves & The Seeds of Disillusionment

July 12, 2005 @ 10:59 pm

Cross-posted on my MySpace blog. A couple of days ago I posted a brief scene from my small collection of personally written fiction. Here are two more with a different character: Happy Slaves and Seeds of Disillusionment. This character is rather more complex than the previous one, so a bit of background information may be [...]

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Is anarchism inherently dualistic?

July 12, 2005 @ 6:32 pm

In his books, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical and Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism, and elsewhere, Chris Sciabarra relates Ayn Rand’s criticism (as well as his own) of the apparently dualistic nature of anarchism (especially Rothbard’s version). Sciabarra is far more sympathetic to anarchism than Rand ever was. In this post I will, for [...]

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(Mis)Interpreting Nietzsche?

July 10, 2005 @ 8:43 pm

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been reading Sciabarra’s Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical. While I agree with him much of the time and I’ve found his speculations about Nietzsche’s influence on Rand to be interesting and informative, I cannot (at least at the moment) completely agree with his interpretation of Nietzsche as [...]

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Fiction: A Desperate Flight

July 10, 2005 @ 3:20 pm

Cross-posted on my MySpace blog. I’ve been reading Chris Matthew Sciabarra‘s Ayn Rand: The Russion Radical – a fantastic and informative book, by the way – and I’m currently on the section dealing with Rand’s aesthetic theory. Reading about literature and fiction writing got me thinking about my own aspirations to be a fiction writer. [...]

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Taylor at Pitzer

July 10, 2005 @ 2:06 pm

I just found out by accident that one of my professors, James Stacey Taylor, is over at Pitzer College in CA, teaching in IHS’s Libery & Society seminar. This is the very same seminar and location that I attended in 2003. James was responsible for introducing me to IHS. He and the rest of the [...]

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