Archive for October, 2007
Ecclesiastical Orphism
Friday, October 19th, 2007Last night, my wife and I had a delightful evening out at an orchestra concert, but the object of our evening outage was no ordinary orchestra.
The fare for the evening was the world-renowned Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which happened to be visiting the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda, MD, where Heidi often freelances with the National […]
Who is John Galt?
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007The mysterious question that opens Ayn Rand’s epic novel Atlas Shrugged has now haunted the readers, seekers and thinkers who comprise her audience for fifty years, as of today. Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism finds its voice - and a great deal of its thought - in this book. I am not an objectivist. I consider myself […]
Random acts of thinking too much . . .
Thursday, October 4th, 2007I don’t have the time or inclination to write one of my typical lengthy and involved posts, so I thought I’d share some of the more profound things that I’ve been reading and pondering of late . . .
I promise I hadn’t read this article by one of my favorite columnists, when I wrote my most recent […]