…Patheos (blog) The Fountainhead: Living SmallPatheos (blog)The Fountainhead, part 4, chapter 2. The newspaper titan Gail Wynand is telling Howard Roark why he asked him for a…
…Old Testament and then govern on the principles of Ayn Rand (an avowed atheist) while Democrats are too self-conscious to talk about their faith but when elected tend to govern generally on the basis of…
…substitutes for religion, from Auguste Comte to Ayn Rand, who seems to have turned smoking into a sort of sacrament. Even…
…Patheos (blog) The Fountainhead: All You Need Is LovePatheos (blog)The Fountainhead, part 3, chapter 4. Dominique has agreed to sleep with Gail Wynand. He’s taking her on a round…
…Patheos (blog) The Fountainhead: Indecent ProposalPatheos (blog)Gail Wynand greets Dominique in his office. Impressed, he tells her that she does justice to her statue: “As a rule…
…Patheos (blog) The Fountainhead: White Picket FencePatheos (blog)But when I looked closer, I realized something surprising: Levittown went into construction in 1947. The…
…TimesHis atheists range from Nietzsche to Ayn Rand, from John Stuart Mill to the Marquis de Sade, with a few sideswipes at Richard Dawkins and his fellow evangelists. Gray’s thoughts on the…
…Patheos (blog) The Fountainhead: Bridge and TunnelPatheos (blog)The Fountainhead, part 3, chapter 2. Peter Keating and Dominique Francon have been married for twenty months. For all…
…private; secular and religious, has its roots in Ayn Rand’s Obectivism, an atheistic philosophy which eschews sacrifice and…
…Patheos (blog) The Fountainhead: The Jewish EugenicistPatheos (blog)The Fountainhead, part 2, chapter 15. I was always planning to review the 1949 film adaptation of The…
…Patheos (blog) The Fountainhead: Love in the Time of ParasitesPatheos (blog)If you’re not a pure and true Objectivist, you may think you love other people, but you’re wrong. In fact…
…Patheos (blog) The Fountainhead: A Fool for a ClientPatheos (blog)Something that’s consistent throughout The Fountainhead is how weirdly, unnaturally unanimous the common people are…