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Jonathan Chait on Ayn Rand

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on September 16, 2009

Jonathan Chait’s review essay taking off from two new books about Ayn Rand, one of…

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  • Economic Growth

John Galt and the Billion Tweaks

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 6, 2009

My colleague Jason Kuznicki nails this: Ayn Rand hated F. A. Hayek, but in a…

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  • Filthy Non-theoretical Politics

On Going Galt

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 5, 2009

I can’t help but feel that threatening to withdraw from economic production, ala Atlas Shrugged‘s…

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  • Economics

Blame It On Ayn Rand?

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on October 10, 2008

In a frankly embarrassing Naomi Klein/J. Edgar Hoover-like wishful ideological free association, Brian Leiter Gerald…

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  • Institutions

On Positive Freedom: Is Society Metaphysical or Man Made?

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 20, 2007

One of the best discussions I know of on the difference between positive and negative…

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  • Moral Philosophy

Should Objectivists Become Mormons?

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on August 16, 2006

I’ve made this point a number of times, but apparently I’m not tired of making…

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  • Objectivism

Sandefur on the Third Letter

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 3, 2005

Tim Sandefur writes: Wilkinson’s argument seems to be that when Rand says that a morality…

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  • Objectivism

Third Letter to a Young Objectivist: Ethics

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 2, 2005

[For an explanation of this series, go here.] Dear Young Will, I’m sorry; it’s been…

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  • Objectivism

New Letter on the Way

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on November 14, 2004

I’ve begun my third letter to a young Objectivist. This one is about the Objectivist…

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  • Objectivism

Second Letter to a Young Objectivist: Human Sociality

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on August 17, 2004

Objectivism advertises itself as a “philosophy for living on earth.” Objectivism rejects the theory/practice dichotomy…

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