This Saturday I am relocating to Belgrade, Serbia.

I’ll be checking just two items when I board the plane: (1) my guitar and (2) a suitcase with my belongings. Today I put my remaining possessions in boxes, and tomorrow those boxes go in a storage facility here in Carson City.

Why Belgrade? Overall I’m in a significant life transition. Kathy and I ( Read more... )

The interview, titled “Dating in the Atlasphere,” was actually conducted in August 2008, but they’ve waited a while to publish it as part of a long series of interviews about Ayn Rand’s legacy.

From Reason TV’s summary:

Joshua Zader’s intellectual relationship with Ayn Rand began as it does for so many, during his college years. He then blazed a ( Read more... )

Nathaniel Branden sent the following message to members of his announcement list:

It is my great pleasure to introduce to you a man and a program of stunning originality and practical results. The man is Jon Butcher and his program is Lifebook.

Lifebook launches you into its world by inviting you to deeply examine 12 separate aspects of your life ( Read more... )

I wrote the following in response to a friends-only post on LiveJournal, in which a Rand-admiring friend in academia claims Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism offers no worldly advantage. For example, if you look at leaders in various fields of human endeavor, Objectivism is no more represented among those people than in the general population.

A ( Read more... )

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I haven’t seen the Fat Head movie yet, but now I want to. Because these videos are great stuff. Bonus points for the libertarian anti-nanny-state themes that seem to run throughout.

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Thanks to Kirez for the tip.

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I received the following today from an Atlasphere member. Our form for removing yourself from the member database asks for a reason for the removal and, inside that form, he wrote:

You are associated with the Brandens, and novelist Erika Holzer, who do not represent Objectivism and have morally betrayed it’s creator. Out of respect for Ayn Rand and ( Read more... )

Harvard Ph.D. graduate and occasional Mudita Journal commenter Amod Lele (see here and here, for example) has started a new blog called “Love of All Wisdom” that some of you might enjoy exploring. His political views couldn’t be more different than my own, but he’s proven himself interested in and open to cross-dialogue.

In his latest post, “ ( Read more... )

Below is the May 2009 newsletter I received from Flow’s Michael Strong. I haven’t quite put my finger on why, but I enjoy Michael’s storytelling so much. Perhaps it has to do with his ability to integrate such wide cultural perspectives into something that honors human nature at such a deep level. I bow to you, Michael.

“Your task is not to seek ( Read more... )

Lately I’ve become very interested in the subject of monetary inflation. It’s well worth boning up on the subject today, because it sounds like inflation will be coming back with a vengeance, starting sometime in the next year or two.

Last week’s article “Inflation Nation” in the New York Times, by financial historian Allan Meltzer, is one of the ( Read more... )