One of the oldest weapons against politics is humor, and it is precisely this that politicians detest the most.

Egoism Without Permission: The Moral Psychology of Ayn Rand’s Ethics

by Tara Smith, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024, xi + 246 pp.

[The following is derived from a speech in my novel, The Flight of the Barbarous Relic.]

Wars must be funded, and for this, governments functioning as states call upon the banking system for assistance.

A serious omission is notable in the circulating list of suspects responsible for the early August quake in global risk-on markets. This is the role of “monopoly capital” in stimulating wild technological change which by-passes potential benign control by the invisible hands of free markets.