July 2010

About a month and a half ago, in Atlas Shrugged movie finally filming?!, my co-blogger Jacob Huebert updated us on the Atlas Shrugged movie. Now, thanks to Reason Magazine and Reason.tv, we are privileged to see behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.

I’ll admit I was leery of the current iteration of the project, but I am somewhat reassured to hear that Atlas Shrugged will be made into three movies, not one, which is more doable. I’m also reassured that the director and the actor playing Henry Rearden seem to have a decent handle on Ayn Rand’s vision and characters, though I was a bit disquieted by the director mispronouncing Rand’s first name.

From Reason.com’s Hit & Run blog (video below):

Many actors and producers have talked about adapting Ayn Rand’s classic Atlas Shrugged for the big screen, but 53 years after its publication no one has dared tackle the ambitious project—until now.

Reason.tv heads to the set of Atlas Shrugged Part One to offer viewers a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of this most anticipated film.

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Erecting Entry-preneurial Barriers

by Isaac Bergman July 31, 2010

The caption accompanying this NY Times article picture of a street vendor selling bottled-water reads “Many sidewalk peddlers are doing record business, though the city considers it against the law to sell water without a license.” I think Brad Spangler’s timely Facebook status update expresses how one should react to this: Note carefully that states [...]

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Tom Palmer on “The Case for Ordered Liberty Without States”

by Stephan Kinsella July 30, 2010

Tom Palmer links to the written version of his 5 minute opening remarks at Mark Skousen’s FreedomFest earlier this month, “The Case for Ordered Liberty Without States.” Although he doesn’t like to use the term “anarchist” (see also Gil Guillory, Libertarians or Anarchists?), this is a nice short argument for the anarcho-libertarian position.

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Follow us on the new Digg

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 29, 2010

We’re on the new Digg. If you are too, you may want to follow us: http://new.digg.com/libstandard. The new Digg allows us to import our blog feed, automatically digging each of our posts as they are published. You can follow other people and organizations just like on Twitter. This may just revitalize Digg and make it a [...]

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The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism

by Stephan Kinsella July 28, 2010

My article, “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” was published on Mises Daily today. Also published today on Mises Daily is a reprint of Wendy McElroy’s great, classic “Copyright and Patent in Benjamin Tucker’s Periodical Liberty.” Updates: Amusing: on the “Christian Pipe Smokers” site (hunh?), one guy links to my article and says “This is [...]

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