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Myth of US individualism and inequality

“Often we think that if we are not happy, it’s our problem, and we just have to show more grit"

Held Down by Our Bootstraps

Held Down by Our Bootstraps

Author Alissa Quart says the myth of American individualism is a poor excuse for inequality.

California's Attacks on Big Oil Will Only Drive More People Out of the State

California's Attacks on Big Oil Will Only Drive More People Out of the State

At least until all the gasoline is gone.

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A national bullying of the poor: the trouble with America’s bootstrapping myth

Centuries of American thought support a hypocritical ideology that can be difficult to escape even when we want to

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Review: The White Lotus Explores the Misery of Wealth

The HBO series features what Ayn Rand would call "second-handers."

Ayn Rand Would Hate the New Spotify Video Feed

Turning every streaming service into TikTok is bad for the internet. It'll be disastrous for music.

The Founding Mothers of Libertarianism

Freedom's Furies tells how three women offered their own unique defenses of individual liberty and how their disagreements anticipated the differences among libertarians and classical liberals today.

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Top 10 books about freedom

Top 10 books about freedom

Authors as radically different as Julia Donaldson, John Rawls and Ayn Rand can make us appreciate the value of freedom, and the terrible jeopardy of losing it

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game; Origin Story; Operation Morning Light; The Feud – review

The week in audio: Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game; Origin Story; Operation Morning Light; The Feud – review

There’s lots to learn on this week’s best podcasts, from the meaning of Grand Theft Auto and Ayn Rand to the trouble with Christ Church College, Oxford

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Balkinization Symposium on Andrew Koppelman's "Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed"

Balkinization Symposium on Andrew Koppelman's "Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed"

Participants include Jonathan Adler, Richard Epstein, Christina Mulligan, and myself, among others.

What is Satanism? And where does social justice fit into this controversial religion?

What is Satanism? And where does social justice fit into this controversial religion?

Satanism is undergoing an identity crisis, caught between its individualist origins and a more justice-oriented contemporary incarnation. Are Satanists supposed to be radical social Darwinists? Or is there room in the religion for compassion?

The tragic misbehaviour of big business

The tragic misbehaviour of big business

Are successful businesspeople more like heroes or villains? In fictional accounts, one can find plenty of examples of each, from Charles Dickens's miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to Ayn Rand's rugged individualist entrepreneur John Galt. In F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents privileged old money, with its ruthlessness and…

We Have a Printing Paper Problem

We Have a Printing Paper Problem

A new supply chain parable for our times

Agnieszka Pilat: 'I Didn't Realize People Still Think Socialism Is a Good Idea.'

Agnieszka Pilat: 'I Didn't Realize People Still Think Socialism Is a Good Idea.'

The Polish-born artist is creating "heroic portraits" of machines and defending individualism and creative expression in Silicon Valley.

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Artist Agnieszka Pilat: 'I Didn't Realize People Still Think Socialism Is a Good Idea.'

Born in communist Poland and disgusted by Silicon Valley communists, Pilat is making "heroic portraits of machines" and defending Ayn Rand.

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Madeline Miller: ‘Reading Ayn Rand was like being dipped in slime’

The author of The Song of Achilles on discovering TS Eliot, her childhood love of James Herriot and the subversive genius of Chinua Achebe

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