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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Plus significant portions of Anthem take place in an abandoned subway station. LikeLike

Cancel culture is all the rage now, so for once in my life, I’m going to be fashionable and follow suit (so to speak) by blogging the living crap out of it. Lauren Hall has a blog post at Radical Classical Liberals on the recent controversy about Adele and cultural appropriation. The post alludes to…

Incidentally, I’ve made somewhat similar points in response to a blog post by Lauren Hall at Radical Classical Liberals. https://radicalclassicalliberals.com/2020/09/01/adele-and-the-local-nature-of-social-norms/ LikeLike

In reply to surfraider31. Thanks for your comment. I guess one overarching response I have is that all three of your objections displace or misplace the burden of proof. Vallier is offering the novel positive claim here: we should avoid cancel culture …

Some parting thoughts on the first video, the last two just random free associations provoked by it: First, I enjoyed it immensely; thank you. Second, given Rand’s literary interest in description of both natural landscapes and cityscapes (and …

Against objection 1: much of what you say here seems to apply just as well to ‘rape culture’, ‘racist police culture’ possibly also e.g. ‘masculine culture’ and I think you’re begging the question a little by i…

[…] “I don’t claim to have a priori knowledge about the extent to which people should or shouldn… — interesting thoughts from Irfan Khawaja about cancel culture, discussion of which, he says, “strikes me as time-bound pole…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. And then of course, there’s the contrast of the Internationale with “John Grey”… LikeLike

Yet another random observation inspired by the first video: both Roark’s court scene and the Atlas scene with Francisco bring out Rand’s Stoic side. Most of her heroes seem to embody the Stoic ideal of “nihil admirari,” to be s…

I agree with your interpretation of Red Pawn versus Peikoff’s. The ambiguity in the passage is that it’s not clear whether she’s attributing tragic grandeur to Christianity or to the particular artist who painted the chapel’s mu…