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Looking Up From Valhalla: Ayn Rand and the Paganization of the American...

(Part I link) What finally made me question Rand, though, was an essay she wrote on why an Objectivist would be pro-choice The post Looking Up From Valhalla: Ayn Rand and the Paganization of the...

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With Both Barrels: First Anne Rice, Now Dinesh D’souza! Will the defections...

  As I was “calling it a day” last night, my good friend, Carl, over at Ignatius Insight Scoop, posted a note The post With Both Barrels: First Anne Rice, Now Dinesh D’souza! Will the defections never...

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Finding “The Book” of Conservatism

The following 1950 quote from Russell Kirk [“How Dead is Edmund Burke?,” Queen’s Quarterly 57 (1950): 162] made me think of our The post Finding “The Book” of Conservatism appeared first on The...

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Whittaker Chambers and “the strenuously sterile world of Atlas Shrugged”

Working in the free-market policy world, I’m forced to endure a certain adulation of Ayn Rand and her epic Atlas Shrugged. With The post Whittaker Chambers and “the strenuously sterile world of Atlas...

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Ayn Rand Shrugged: Why Bother?

  In comments on a post on The Imaginative Conservative (Whittaker Chambers and the Strenuously Sterile World of Atlas Shrugged) the question The post Ayn Rand Shrugged: Why Bother? appeared first on...

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On the Road: With Rand &The Randroids

by Susanne Creamcheese, TIC’s Roving Pop-Culture Correspondent Hackensack, NJ—American campuses are hot to trot for the new pop band, Rand and the The post On the Road: With Rand &The Randroids...

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Bad Art, Bad Ideas: A Plea to Avoid Seeing Atlas Shrugged

With today’s release of the film of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, its appropriate to consider some of the reasons Bentley Hart gives us in The post Bad Art, Bad Ideas: A Plea to Avoid Seeing Atlas...

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Conservatism Needs Less Ayn Rand, More Flannery O’Connor

How to revive the flagging fortunes of the Republican Party might matter to some people, but it’s not a question that should The post Conservatism Needs Less Ayn Rand, More Flannery O’Connor appeared...

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Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: From Romantic Fallacy to Holocaustic Imagination

“The only authentic epochê is . . . victory over desire, victory over Promethean pride.”—René Girard[1] “When the SS torturer becomes the The post Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: From Romantic Fallacy to...

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The Libertarians, Human but Hardly Humane

We all know the arguments against the notion, but somewhat reluctantly I conclude that libertarians are indeed human. After all, our species The post The Libertarians, Human but Hardly Humane appeared...

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Why Libertarians Need God

Does God underwrite our freedom, or undermine it? There are thousands of self-styled “libertarians” who would argue the latter. They actively oppose The post Why Libertarians Need God appeared first on...

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Video Games: The Rising Art

I believe video games are art. I don’t think that’s a very controversial thing to say anymore, but it bears repeating. It’s The post Video Games: The Rising Art appeared first on The Imaginative...

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Reclaiming Conservatism from Libertarians

Since the 2012 election, a wide-ranging and helpful debate about the direction of conservatism has broken out among conservative commentators seeking to re-brand The post Reclaiming Conservatism from...

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Dabbling in the Dead Philosophies

After returning home from 20 years of warring and wandering, the Greek hero Odysseus was confronted by his long-suffering wife, Penelope, who The post Dabbling in the Dead Philosophies appeared first...

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Conservatism Needs Less Ayn Rand, More Flannery O’Connor

How to revive the flagging fortunes of the Republican Party might matter to some people, but it’s not a question that should concern principled conservatives. Crypto-conservatives aplenty stand ready...

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The Libertarians, Human but Hardly Humane

We all know the arguments against the notion, but somewhat reluctantly I conclude that libertarians are indeed human. After all, our species contains the incontinent, the mentally disabled, the...

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Why Libertarians Need God

Does God underwrite our freedom, or undermine it? There are thousands of self-styled “libertarians” who would argue the latter. They actively oppose the religious commitments of most social...

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Video Games: The Rising Art

I believe video games are art. I don’t think that’s a very controversial thing to say anymore, but it bears repeating. It’s true that Lord of the Flies comes to mind now and again if I play a...

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Reclaiming Conservatism from Libertarians

Since the 2012 election, a wide-ranging and helpful debate about the direction of conservatism has broken out among conservative commentators seeking to re-brand the movement. Key in this debate is how...

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Dabbling in the Dead Philosophies

After returning home from 20 years of warring and wandering, the Greek hero Odysseus was confronted by his long-suffering wife, Penelope, who could not accept the homecoming of her husband without...

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