There are two philosophical axises at play:
1. Mysticism-altruism-collectivism
2. Reason-individualism-capitalism
From Ayn Rand’s talk “Is Atlas Shrugging?
youtu.be/ZFREspqpBnA?si…
This video gives Nikos’s account of his journey from antisemite to a supporter of Jews and Israel. Well worth your time, esp. for those of you who think Israel is on the wrong side of the conflict.
This video gives Nikos’s account of his journey from antisemite to a supporter of Jews and Israel. Well worth your time, esp. for those of you who think Israel is on the wrong side of the conflict.
Sitting here on this fine Wednesday afternoon reading Ayn Rand and thinking of how sacred work is, and how uniquely inhumane it is to limit or curtail people's ability to work given the crucial role it plays in human life.
To understand why such optics matter to Putin,
we need to go back to the USSR.
A strange thing was observed during the Cold War:
The Soviet Union was America’s sworn enemy —
and yet it craved American recognition.
From Stalin to Brezhnev to Gorbachev,
Moscow desperately sought…
Btw, I just released a video breaking down
the who-is-who of the new Right,
what they believe,
and the threat they pose to our way of life.
"The New Right: An Introduction (and a Warning)"
→ youtu.be/Z-F5Pne3_hI?si…
The post-liberal Right: all you need to know.
MEGA-THREAD 🧵
'Why should I care?'
Because it’s the hottest ideological trend in the US.
Because they're the closest thing to an official ideology
in the White House - from staffers to the Vice President himself.
Because if they…
The post-liberal Right: all you need to know.
MEGA-THREAD 🧵
'Why should I care?'
Because it’s the hottest ideological trend in the US.
Because they're the closest thing to an official ideology
in the White House - from staffers to the Vice President himself.
Because if they…
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I wish native-born Americans got to experience what it’s like to choose this country and become naturalized. It’s an indescribable feeling.
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If you thought the Trump administration was pro-business, here's more evidence that the opposite is true. Google is a target for the sin of achieving great success by improving the lives of millions.
newideal.aynrand.org/antitrust-crim… via @AynRandInst
‘Buy American’ Is Un-American newideal.aynrand.org/buy-american-i… via @AynRandInst
In the era of Donald Trump, with his open hostility to free trade, this article is even more timely now than when Harry Binswanger wrote it nearly 40 years ago..
28 energy leaders call for the elimination of all IRA subsidies—even ones that benefit their companies.
This is the kind of integrity we need from industry—and from Congress.
Full letter below. Please share with your Congressmen!
Dear Chairman Smith and Chairman Crapo:
We,…
'The orientation that we should be judged by the character we’ve formed is premised on the fact that each of us is a sovereign being with the fundamental power of choice, rather than determined by our unchosen membership in a (racial) collective.' newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18562
A deep insight I got from Objectivism:
how self-destructive lying is.
Lying flips around grotesquely your universe.
So as not to be found, you suddenly bet on everyone around you being less clever (or honest) than you are.
To sustain the lie, you lean towards the worse…
JD Vance vs JD Vance
In 2017, if you told me that the author
of Hillbilly Elegy will be running for VP,
I’d be excited. The book is fascinating & inspiring.
But today, the ideology of JD Vance goes against
some of the central themes in his book.
Some examples:
Hillbilly Elegy…
I think incompetence, not conspiracy, explains the Secret Service debacle. But one of the reasons the director should resign is that in this climate, such stunning failure breeds conspiracy theorizing. When you say you can't have a Secret Service sniper on a sloped roof, rational…
This is what is destroying the world:
"He was seeing the enormity of the smallness of the enemy who was destroying the world. He felt as if, after a journey of years through a landscape of devastation, past the ruins of great factories, the wrecks of powerful engines, the bodies…
It’s crucial that critics of the mass campus protests take the moral high ground on free speech. These protests are *anti-free speech.* Free speech means the right to say anything to anyone else who wishes to hear it. It doesn’t mean the right to *force* someone to listen.
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