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Don’t These Uppity Negroes Ever Get Tired of Being Uppity?

by Wilton Alston October 20, 2011

I’ve written on the phenonenon before, most recently, while examining the trite hate-fest that pretends to be media coverage surrounding LeBron James. And frankly, I’ve found myself disagreeing with Bryant Gumbel on a number of salient points throughout these discussions. This time though, Gumbel is on-point. Recently he made these comments, regarding the NBA Lockout and how [...]

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It’s 2011: Do You Know Where Your Uppity Negroes Are?

by Wilton Alston June 16, 2011

Uppity Negro: N.—a Black person who is committed to reversing the crimes of self-refusal, self-denial, and self-hatred that are endemic to the Black community and detrimental to the Black psyche. Syn.—UNAPOLOGETIC. VAINGLORIOUS. MULTIFARIOUS. JUST AUDACIOUS. ~ The Urban Dictionary Having written on both LeBron and Kobe it should be pretty clear that I like sports. [...]

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Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand and the Classical Liberal Tradition

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 28, 2011

With the recent release of the first part of the film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged (see Matthew Alexander’s review on Prometheus Unbound), the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) — via LearnLiberty.org – brings us this interview with Professor Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, on how Ayn Rand fits [...]

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The Corrosive Effects of IP

by Robert Wicks May 24, 2011

Libertarian thought has largely moved against IP in recent years, largely due to the groundbreaking work of Stephan Kinsella. Kinsella’s work is a powerful defense of genuine property rights and a thorough repudiation of government-granted monopolies. One of the overlooked implications of the rights violations inherent in intellectual property laws is the terrible effect of copyright laws [...]

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My Take on Atlas Shrugged the Movie

by Katelyn Horn April 16, 2011

I read Atlas Shrugged about three years ago. There is nothing in the movie not in the book and the stuff that is skipped is obviously skipped for the sake of time. It’s technically set in modern times, but with a heavy-handed attempt to pay homage to the art-deco, 1920s aesthetic of the book. The [...]

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Dystopia Week on Tor.com

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 11, 2011

If you enjoy dystopian fiction, and dystopias often provide great fodder for libertarians, be sure to keep an eye on Tor.com this week. From the announcement: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” —Nineteen Eighty-Four Over sixty years later, 1984 has come and gone, but Orwell’s unsettling vision [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke vs. Economics and Capitalism

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché March 30, 2011

A few years ago in honor of Arthur C. Clarke’s then-recent birthday, I wrote on my own blog that he must never have read Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, because according to this quote cited by Gregory Benford in his happy-birthday letter in Locus Magazine (January 2008), he claims that “there are some general [...]

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