Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Lecture: "'Just War Theory' vs. American Self-Defense" by Yaron Brook
Location: Conference Room, National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Debate: "Eminent Domain: To Preserve or To Abolish?" with
Jeffrey A. Finkle and Yaron Brook
- To Preserve: Jeffrey A. Finkle, President and CEO of the International Economic Development Council
- To Abolish: Yaron Brook, Executive Director of The Ayn Rand Institute
Location: Holeman Lounge, National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Time: 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
For full details visit their
website.Jan 18, 2006 | Dollars & Crosses
The Objectivist Club at New York University is excited to announce the following event. For more information and to register, please visit http://nyu.objectivismonline.net
Why Conservatives are Anti-Business
A speech by Dr. Yaron Brook
Details: DATE: Monday January 30, 2006 TIME: 7:00 pm (Doors @ 6:30PM) LOCATION: 60 Washington Square South, NY, NY 10012 @ NYU Kimmel Center - Room Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor)
DESCRIPTION: Conservatives often present themselves as "pro-business" and "pro- free market"-i.e., in favor of an economic system that enables productive businessmen to flourish. Yet, in reality, Dr. Yaron Brook observes, conservatives support many anti-business policies, from antitrust prosecution to "windfall" taxes on profits-policies that hurt this nation's most innovative and successful businessmen. Conservatives are anti-business in practice, Dr. Brook argues, because they accept an anti-business moral theory-a religious morality that upholds a life of renunciation and sacrifice, and thus advocates a government that shackles, taxes, and punishes the pursuit of material success in this world. What America's productive businessmen need-and, in fact, what all of us need-Dr. Brook explains, is a moral philosophy that regards the creation and enjoyment of wealth as a virtue.Jan 11, 2006 | Dollars & Crosses
Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, is scheduled to appear on the CNBC TV program "Closing Bell" today, Jan. 11, 2006, between 7:00 and 8:00 P.M. Eastern time, to discuss why Microsoft and other internet companies should not help Chinese censors.
Dr. Brook is also scheduled to appear on the CNBC TV program "Morning Call" tomorrow, Jan. 12, 2006, between 10:00 A.M and 12:00 P.M Eastern time, to discuss why the SEC should not adopt more stringent rules for disclosure of executive compensation.Jan 10, 2006 | Dollars & Crosses
Andy Bernstein will be on Thom Hartmann's Show on Air America again. The interview will be 10 minutes long and start at 12:00 Noon on Wednesday January 11, 2006. The topic is "Microsoft and the Chinese Censors".Jan 4, 2006 | Dollars & Crosses
From myrhaf.blogspot.com (Hat-tip to Noodlefood):
This interview with Habermas and Derrida on 9/11 is old, but astonishing if you have not seen it. This is a small excerpt of the late Jacques Derrida trying to figure out what happened on 9/11:
"Something" took place, we have the feeling of not having seen it coming, and certain consequences undeniably follow upon the "thing." But this very thing, the place and meaning of this "event," remains ineffable, like an intuition without concept, like a unicity with no generality on the horizon or with no horizon at all, out of range for a language that admits its powerlessness and so is reduced to pronouncing mechanically a date, repeating it endlessly, as a kind of ritual incantation, a conjuring poem, a journalistic litany or rhetorical refrain that admits to not knowing what it's talking about. We do not in fact know what we are saying or naming in this way: September 11, le 11 septembre, September 11. The brevity of the appellation (September 11, 9/11) stems not only from an economic or rhetorical necessity. The telegram of this metonymy—a name, a number—points out the unqualifiable by recognizing that we do not recognize or even cognize that we do not yet know how to qualify, that we do not know what we are talking about.
Being a philosopher should make one more intelligent than the average man. It should give one the ability to make integrations most people cannot imagine. The philosophy of Jacques Derrida, maybe the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century, made him less intelligent than the average man. He could not understand what happened on September 11, 2001. The fact that people use the date to refer to what happened on that day seems to have baffled the man.
