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Joey Miller, New Braunfels Investment Advisor, Talks About Leadership and How He Defines Success

Joey Miller , a New Braunfels investment advisor, is known for his straightforward wisdom not just on investing, but on success and leadership. For him, success is not a single achievement but a journey full of growth fueled by continuous learning ...

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Friday essay: We all live in the world of Ayn Rand, egomaniac godmother of libertarianism. Can fiction help us navigate it?

Love her or loathe her, Ayn Rand is an undeniably influential figure. Her contemporary admirers range from celebrities – Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Rob Lowe – to politicians, including Donald Trump. Cultural commentator Lisa Duggan has called her “the ultimate mean girl”.

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Four video game adaptations of classic works of literature, from The Hobbit to Hamlet

With its vision of towering tripods stalking across a blasted landscape, the latest War of the Worlds video game being developed by Flipswitch Studios is hotly anticipated by players. But it’s notable that discussion boards have focused more on the similarities with Spielberg’s 2005 movie and less on how the…

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Can you judge the tech bros by their bookshelves?

A list of book choices by the Silicon Valley titans offers little more than a blank page with respect to real insights into their mindset

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Netflix Rejects Zack Snyder's TV Adaptation Of The Fountainhead

Zack Snyder's pitch for a TV adaptation of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand was rejected by Netflix. Snyder's admiration for the novel's themes of individual...

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AI Fraud Act Could Outlaw Parodies, Political Cartoons, and More

The bill is broad enough to target a Saturday Night Live skit lampooning Trump, a comedic impression of Taylor Swift, or a weird ChatGPT-generated image of Ayn Rand.

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Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt 'different' in the world – and changed the way we think

The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes Wolfram Eilenberger in his new book, The Visionaries.

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"We were never fascists. To suggest that 2112 was suckering kids into a right-wing mantra with fascistic overtones was wrong-headed and irresponsible": Geddy Lee shuts down the idea that Rush were promoting "proto fascism" on 2112

Rush vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee has no time for the suggestion that his band were promoting far right beliefs on 2112

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The Visionaries review – seers who were shaped by the shadow of war

Wolfram Eilenberger’s group biography of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil illuminates how the horrors of the 1930s informed the philosophers’ worldviews – with the ‘saintly’ Weil the star of the show

The Guardian - UK

The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger review – four women who changed the world

The complicated lives and questing minds of Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil

The Guardian - UK

Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand's hero burns the world down when he doesn't get his way. Her fans run the world – should we worry?

Our cultural touchstones series looks at books that have made an impact.

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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Celebrated Selfishness as a Virtue

The show's final season boldly declared that success requires putting yourself first and accepting the trade-offs.

Reason

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"

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Held Down by Our Bootstraps

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

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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

Reason

Review: The White Lotus Explores the Misery of Wealth

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

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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.

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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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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"

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

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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?

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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…

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We Have a Printing Paper Problem

A new supply chain parable for our times

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