Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
Monday, December 16, 2024

LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF ATLAS SHRUGGED

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 In the opening scenes of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand sets the conflict of values between the heirs of the Taggart Transcontinental railroad. J...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

HOW TO KEEP TEENAGERS FROM READING AYN RAND

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The Ayn Rand Institute created a guide book for high school teachers who want to bring Anthem into their classroom as an assigned reading. ...
Monday, December 12, 2022

LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF ATLAS SHRUGGED

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Ayn Rand kept a "Horror File" of current news reports validating the worst aspects of her fictional universe in Atlas Shrugged . S...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Celestron AVX Product Review, Part 3

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Friday night, the 17 th , I intended to be out through dawn, the sky being clear, albeit with a nearly full Moon. However, after some frustr...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

An Objective Philosophy of Science

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In framing her philosophy as capital-O Objectivism, Ayn Rand was following in the tradition of Enlightenment objectivism, which was never ex...
Saturday, February 6, 2021

Rachmaninoff

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My mother was more for Chopin and Liszt and we had a lot of that, especially as sheets and books, but also on 33-1/3 LPs, eventually in ster...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Ten Years of Necessary Facts

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This blog was launched on 2 January 2011. It was inspired by Gregory Browne’s  Necessary Factual Truths  (University Press of America, 2001)...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

Turing Never Said That

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“I think that sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” The line is spoken twic...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Galileo and Saturn: Epistemology not Optics

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It is commonly claimed that Galileo did not perceive the rings of Saturn because the telescope he was using was not capable of magnifying th...