Earlier this week I gave a talk in Indianapolis at the excellent Liberty Fund on whether free-market capitalism is good or bad for art. The question matters in today’s intellectual context because thinkers on both left and right argue regularly that art suffers under free market systems. Traditional conservatives such as Robert Bork and neo-conservatives […]
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Update: The movie is now playing in Janesville but not Rockford. So we are heading up to Janesville’s Wildwood theatre for the 7:10 p.m. showing of Saturday, May 7. Here is a Google map. Free movie outing this weekend for Rockford College students. See the new Atlas Shrugged movie this weekend. Cost to students: Free.
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Now I remember what this picture of Dagny Taggart reminded me of. Works of art, indeed.
As someone who read and loved the book, this movie totally worked for me. Schilling’s Dagny is intelligent, emotionally expressive, and beautiful. Bowler’s Hank Rearden is equally intelligent and competent, with occasionally bemused, understated humor and equally occasionally understated anger. And the sexual chemistry between the two — yes, indeed. Wisocky is tone-perfect as that
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A stunning glimpse of the future of the new media:
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“Babies Are Born to Dance, New Research Shows” is the headline of a recent report in Science Daily: “Researchers have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech.” Data like this connect with key issues about mind-body integration. Music seems to be central to every
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Two images, the first taken on a walk yesterday near my home in Illinois. This is the northern part of the state in early spring. The second is one of my favorite Pissarro landscapes, Chestnut Trees at Osny, painted in northern France circa 1873. That coincidence makes me happy.
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