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Ayn Rand and the Austrian Economists | Edward W. Younkins https://odysee.com/@mises:1/ayn-rand-and-the-austrian-economists:a {Mises Media | 23 March 2024} Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by Shone and Brae Sadler. Recorded at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, 22 March 2024...

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t. – Ayn Rand I first picked up a copy of Atlas Shrugged so I could destroy it at a book barbecue hosted by my local...

Listing the best civil disobedience quotes is easy. Anyone can do it. I just did it. But it takes a great deal of tact to endorse its practice. On the one hand, I do believe civil disobedience is a moral response to an immoral state of affairs; on the other, I hardly need some boneheaded...

It is liberating to write the introduction to a collection of individuality quotes. If you think anything I’ve written sounds boneheaded, then I can say I’m just being me and ask who are you to judge? In all seriousness, you are in fact highly qualified to judge whatever you read. Tear apart...

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the U.S. that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.” – Christopher Hitchens Most collections of greed quotes are soundly against the concept of greed. Why, then, are we presenting quotes in favor of one of the...

Libertarianism typically isn’t something you’re taught in the American public education system. This makes sense. Just like the priests who teach at Catholic school might not hand out copies of God Is Not Great, so too would government employees shrink away from a curriculum centered around the...

“Eventually, the question you ask stops being ‘Who is John Galt?’ and becomes ‘When will John Galt shut up?'” – Anonymous, not so subtly critiquing Galt’s 56-page long speech in Atlas Shrugged Who is John Galt? And why should you care about Atlas Shrugged quotes? Atlas Shrugged tells the story...

Who is Ayn Rand? Born to a middle class Russian-Jewish family in 1905, Rand was treated to a front row seat to the wonders of communism in action. Rand fled with her family to the Crimea following the “liberation” of her father’s pharmacy but ultimately returned to Saint Petersburg where she...

Libertarianism is for petulant children: Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and the movement’s sad “rebellion” Libertarians fancy themselves radicals, and yet their rallying cry can be reduced to "You're not the boss of me!" David Masciotra, AlterNet 'Libertarians believe themselves controversial and...

h/t LRC: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/new-rand-novel/ Ayn Rand’s Early Novel ‘Ideal’ To Be Published After 80 Years http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/12/03/ayn-rands-early-novel-ideal-to-be-published-after-80-years/ Jennifer Maloney (03 December 2014) Ayn Rand fans, here’s something...

h/t LRC: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/david-gordon/anarcho-capitalists-against-ayn-rand/ Anarcho-Capitalists Against Ayn Rand http://mises.org/daily/6754/AnarchoCapitalists-Against-Ayn-Rand David Gordon (16 May 2014) The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism. By J. Michael Oliver...

For weeks. I keep reading books in between. What's the secret to staying focused? It's become almost a personal vendetta now. I must finish it. I took a second degree in English and read so many books. The only one I've never been able to finish is Moby Dick. That book blew. I don't want to add...