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#3, The gentle push, is a technique Peter Keating used in order to get rid of a rival. He even lined up a client for his rival.

Are you sure this is an accurate quote? It looks hinky to me. The Romantic Manifesto is a book-length anthology. Do you know which of the collected pieces is supposed to contain it? The Objectivist was a monthly. Do you know which month in 1969? I have all the 1969 issues except July. Tell me which month and I'll check it out.

Natan Ehrenreich at National Review (may be paywalled) has denounced Freedom Conservatism for its lack of religiosity, the very feature that would make the organization most interesting to this readership. Their statement seems to show a Randian influence, most conspicuously in its insistence that free will and human nature, not religion, are the origin of liberty. The long list of signatories doesn't contain any recognizably Objectivist names.
I'll be watching them with curiosity.

Common Sense platform doc

In the 1940s Rand worked on Top Secret, a never-realized movie about the Manhattan Project (see Journals). Such a movie is finally coming out.

Isn't this a trip down memory lane? Eleven years ago in this very thread I declined to nominate California's high-speed rail on the grounds that it might never happen. It still hasn't happened.

Archaeologists are with you on this point: Were the Egyptian pyramids built by slaves? | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Isn't this a trip down memory lane? Eleven years ago in this very thread I declined to nominate California's high-speed rail on the grounds that it might never happen. It still hasn't happened.

An article that makes for interesting reading in connection with The Fountainhead and Rand's theories about art. Sullivan was her model for Henry Cameron.
The author's observation that highrise is on the decline in the US but going strong in China raises a question: has technology decentralized work so that such buildings are obsolete? If so, you'd expect freer markets to catch on sooner. On the other hand, maybe politics brought this on by making big cities more expensive, dilapidated and dangerous.

An article that makes for interesting reading in connection with The Fountainhead and Rand's theories about art. Sullivan was her model for Henry Cameron.
The author's observation that highrise is on the decline in the US but going strong in China raises a question: has technology decentralized work so that such buildings are obsolete? If so, you'd expect freer markets to catch on sooner. On the other hand, maybe politics brought this on by making big cities more expensive, dilapidated and dangerous.

Thanks, I learned a new word " irredentist" ( a word the spell checker program doesn't recognize, so not the only one lol). Being a New World , American chauvinist the idea that the changing of territories happens frequently enough throughout west civilization in the Old World they needed a word for it feels, somewhat surprisingly, intuitively correct.
I mean I did use the "word"  'Alcase -Lorraine-y' in describing the context of the current Russo-Ukrainian war.

Another suggestion: minds (i.e. certain capacities and activities of certain living organisms) are a part of reality. They require (which is not to say that they are) certain physical equipment in the external world. Try to give an account of even the most primitive consciousness without it.

Somebody has done a 3-D rendering of the house Wright designed for Rand. It's only a couple of still pictures, not a full walkthrough such as digital reconstructors have done with many of Wright's demolished or never-built designs. Such a treatment for the Rand design may be impossible, since the project never got to the detail stage.
In the meantime, the most beautiful of the full realizations is a tour of the Imperial Hotel, which stood for almost 50 years in Tokyo.

Somebody has done a 3-D rendering of the house Wright designed for Rand. It's only a couple of still pictures, not a full walkthrough such as digital reconstructors have done with many of Wright's demolished or never-built designs. Such a treatment for the Rand design may be impossible, since the project never got to the detail stage.
In the meantime, the most beautiful of the full realizations is a tour of the Imperial Hotel, which stood for almost 50 years in Tokyo.

Queer as a coot

Queer as a coot

Sciabarra tracked down her academic transcripts several years ago.

Vocabulary question:
I thought a visa was an authorization to enter a country. If you're trying to leave your home country, don't you want a passport?

I second your analysis. If the Republicans get control of the House we'll be in for two years of rancorous, bad-willed divided government that won't be able to move any big legislation, and that's the best we could have hoped for.
Another piece of good news is that the state-level abortion initiatives went the way I hoped. At National Review they're already trying to rationalize it away.

I second your analysis. If the Republicans get control of the House we'll be in for two years of rancorous, bad-willed divided government that won't be able to move any big legislation, and that's the best we could have hoped for.
Another piece of good news is that the state-level abortion initiatives went the way I hoped. At National Review they're already trying to rationalize it away.

Say what you will about Dobbs, the recent EPA decision is shaping up as very good news. Here's an example of just how happy we should be.
 

Remember Ma Chalmers and her soybeans?

This brings up a related question: how does the novel's historical setting affect first-time readers today? It was a bit of a period piece in 1957 (execs no longer took cross-country business trips by train; network radio was no longer the primary news and entertainment medium) and a bit more when I first read it. For most newcomers today it's a book of their great-grandparents' era. Does this make it harder or easier (or neither) to get into?

This brings up a related question: how does the novel's historical setting affect first-time readers today? It was a bit of a period piece in 1957 (execs no longer took cross-country business trips by train; network radio was no longer the primary news and entertainment medium) and a bit more when I first read it. For most newcomers today it's a book of their great-grandparents' era. Does this make it harder or easier (or neither) to get into?