Parents who showed up at the Montclair Board of Education meeting last night expressed concern that the newest plan for Washington Street School would compromise the programs of Rand and Renaissance Schools and put the school at full capacity, with no room for growth, from day one.

Category: Genetics IQ WhatEVAH! Posted on: November 17, 2009 10:05 AM, by Mike I've finished reading Richard Nisbett's Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count , which is a wonderful counterargument to Charles Murray's genetic conservatism : intelligence, typically ascertain using IQ, is highly heritable, so there's little ...

November 16, 2009 4:31 PM by Stephan Kinsella In Jeff Tucker's superb article If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others? , he notes Rand's increasing focus on exalting the creator and elevating "intellectual rights" to such a height that they totally trump real rights.

This is a pretty good analysis, I think. Except for that last panel. I'm sure there are violence-advocating extreme leftists out there.

There is a substantial take-down of pedantic bore Ayn Rand in GQ . They tease it thusly: 2009's most influential author is a mirthless Russian-American who loves money, hates God, and swings a gigantic dick.

Rand was what she was and her philosophy was what it was, but beyond the ranks of a few of the pur and the dur , her true significance in today's miserable age of Obama is as a more general symbol of individualism and economic liberty.

Peter, Like Andrew, I think Rand is a symbol rather than a movement philosopher.

What makes 2009 the Year of Ayn Rand is that there's a growing acceptance of the author's most stringent beliefs.

Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans radical enough for capitalism? Ayn Rand, the Russian-born novelist and philosopher, died in 1982.

"It was the most fascinating thing I'd ever read," he announced to the Cato Institute audience.

With two new biographies being covered in all the major newspapers, The Daily Show , and elsewhere, Ayn Rand is in the news .

Whenever Ayn Rand met someone new-an acolyte who'd traveled cross-country to study at her feet, an editor hoping to publish her next novel-she would open the conversation with a line that seems destined to go down as one of history's all-time classic icebreakers: 'Tell me your premises.' Once you'd managed to mumble something halfhearted about ...

A piece in Foreign Policy says that Ayn Rand's now big in India : Not only do Indians perform more Google searches for Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but Penguin Books India has sold an impressive number of copies -- as many as 50,000 of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead each since 2005, a number ...

The Superintendent's Taskforce on Building Use presented their unanimous recommendation on the usage of the Washington Street school to the Board of Education last night.

A few months ago, Ayn Rand fans made a big stink about "going Galt" - threatening to bring down the federal government by taking their productive genius and going home .