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Guenon on the ‘Enterprise of Suggestion’  02/28/10

The hatred of secrecy is basically nothing but one one of the forms of hatred for anything that surpasses the level of the ‘average,’ as well as for everything that holds aloof from the uniformity which it is sought to impose on everyone. Nevertheless, there is, within the modern world itself, a secret that is better kept than any other; it is…  [Read More]

Ayn Rand As Unfamiliar with Logic as She Was with Marital Fidelity  12/12/09

“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage - the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged,…  [Read More]

Hope Fails to Stem Hemorrhage of Jobs  11/06/09

The ghost of F.A. Hayek is rattling his chains right about now. Fiscal stimulus is sometimes needed in the broken capitalist model to “fix” the business cycle (which is intentionally engineered into the market to create the “movement” that market players need to make their princely sums). But when the stimulus takes the form of agenda-driven payoffs to political cronies, one…  [Read More]

New in Our Library

The Old Regime and The Revolution

• Publisher: 

  Harper & Brothers, Publishers

• Translator(s): 
• Publication Year: 

  1856

• Location: 

  New York, NY

Reflections on the Revolution in France

• Publisher: 

  Rivingtons

• Translator(s): 
• Publication Year: 

  1868

• Location: 

  Oxford

Economic Sophisms

• Publisher: 

  G. P. Putnam’s Sons

• Translator(s): 

  Stirling, Patrick James

• Publication Year: 

  1922

• Location: 

  New York, NY

Heidegger’s Essentialist Responses to the Challenge of Technology

• Publisher: 

  Cambridge University Press

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• Publication Year: 

  2007

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