I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day (September 2) each year by opening to a random page of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, in Part II, Chapter IV (“The Sanction Of The Victim”): “I think you should abandon the illusion of your own perfection, which you know full well to be an […]
As always, I celebrate Ayn Rand’s birthday, February 2nd, by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading a passage. Here is the passage from The Fountainhead that I read this year (Part 1, Chapter VIII). “… You don’t have to use the Ionic order, use the Doric. Plain pediments and simple moldings, or […]
It’s About Moral Agency In 2012, when I relocated to a small Utah town from New York City by way of Los Angeles, I thought I was giving up seeing and performing in theatre. But I soon realized that I had landed by serendipity in arguably the theatre capital of the country: Cedar City, home […]
As always, I celebrate Ayn Rand’s birthday, February 2nd, by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading a passage. Here is one of the passages, from The Fountainhead, that I read today (Part 2, Chapter VI). “And, my dear,” asked Kiki Holcombe, “what did you think of that new one, you know, I […]
I am primarily a writer, but sometimes I will edit a book by special request. In 2019 I edited America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It, a landmark book by C. Bradley Thompson. (See my brief review.) This year I edited the forthcoming novel, Variations on a Noble Theme, […]
I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day (September 2) each year by opening to a random page of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, on pages 97–98 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part I, Chapter V (“The Climax of the D’Anconias”): When Francisco left, that summer, […]
As always, I celebrate Ayn Rand’s birthday, February 2nd, by opening one of Ayn Rand’s novels to a random page and reading a passage. Today, I opened The Fountainhead to this passage (Ayn Rand ([1943] 1994, 191, Part 1, Chapter XV). “Look Peter, I believe you. I know that you have nothing to gain by saying this. I […]
I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day (September 2) each year by opening to a random page of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, on page 790 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part III, Chapter II (“The Utopia of Greed”): Of any one person, of any […]
As is my custom, I celebrate the birthday of Ayn Rand (February 2) by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading. Here is something I read today, from The Fountainhead, Part Two, Chapter 5: She went out alone for long walks. She walked fast, her hands in the pockets of an old […]
I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day (September 2) each year by opening to a random page of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, on page 362 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part II, Chapter I (“The Man Who Belonged on Earth”): The young boy from […]