Thursday, January 30, 2014

Philatelics: the objective virtues of stamp collecting

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“Those bright little pieces of paper will carry your words across oceans, over mountains, over deserts, and still more difficult: over sa...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Love, Loss, and Redemption in Atlas Shrugged

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Although she personally hated surprises, Ayn Rand admired O. Henry for his plot twists.   Atlas Shrugged is too easily perceived ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Dagny Two Point Oh

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Coletta Anne Cannon and I met in Lakewood Park on Labor Day, 1969. A decade ago, when she turned 50, I sent her a card and we talked on t...
Friday, January 24, 2014

The First Dagny

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We met in the student lounge through a friend of hers.  Another friend of mine from Young Americans for Freedom had handed me Anthem as we...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Inspecting the Objectivist Theory of Government

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American libertarians generally believe that the only proper functions of government are an army to protect the nation from invasi...
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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Money as Living History

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Pictures of a Distant Country: Seeing America Through Old Paper Money by Richard Doty (Whitman, 2013, 296 pages, $24.95) is a "coffe...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

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William Smith (1769 – 1839) drew the first geological maps of England . He was born into a culture that was certain that the world had been...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Financing a Revolution

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Louis Kossuth (1802-1894) spent his life in politics, working for Hungarian independence. He participated in nationalist, liberal reform mo...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Ma Kiley: Railroad Telegrapher

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Thomas C. Jepsen’s biography, Ma Kiley: the Life of a Railroad Telegrapher (Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, 1997) com...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

The Code Book

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In the University of Texas library stacks, looking for the early history of word processors, I was in the Zs and discovered that my book on ...