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Lauren Southern achieved fame and notoriety as the darling of the alt right, one of the first political influencers on the Internet. But it all came at a serious price. In 2025 she published her autobiography. Here's my account. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/08/this...
This is Not Real Life
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Why is it that blatantly fraudulent ads keep popping up on Facebook no matter how much you complain about it? jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/06/how-...
How Big Fraud is Aided and Abetted by Big Tech and What We Can Do About It
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I recently read a book called Abundance by a couple of liberal progressive writers. I found fascinating. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-bo...
A Book on Optimism and Abundance From an Unusual Perspective
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First in a three part series looking at the similarities and differences between the major AIs: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and CoPilot. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/05/comp...
Comparative AI: Exploring the Nuanced Differences Between the Major AIs
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The movie Nuremberg sparked a renewed interest in Douglas Kelley's book 22 Cells in Nuremberg. Here's my review. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/04/it-c...
It Can't Happen Here! Or Can It?
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A year ago I decided to dabble in visual art and took a course in drawing with pastels. This short essay is a reflection on art and on my experience. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/03/arti...
Artist's Reflections
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My latest article on my blog is a review of Walter Donway's A Serious Chat With Artificial Intelligence. This is an amazing book. Highly recommended. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-se...
A Serious Book About Artificial Intelligence — And About Ourselves
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I just read Orwell's 1984 again after several decades and it is fascinating and relevant today as it was back then. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/02/1984...
1984 Revisited
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Here is a two part chat I had with CoPilot, Microsoft's AI, on Artificial Genaral Intelligence and Sentience. A fascinating discussion. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-ch...
A Chat With CoPilot on Artificial General Intelligence and Sentience: Part 1
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Part 3 of this series looks at Curtis Yarvin's transition to a more explicit advocacy of a centralized one party dictatorship for the USA. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
The Techno-Authoritarian Blueprint for America Part 3
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Part 2 of my chat with Microsoft's AI, CoPilot on reason. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/02/your...
Your Captain Chats With his CoPilot about Reason – Part 2
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My latest post is a conversation I had with CoPilot, Microsoft's AI, on Ayn Rand and David Hume. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/01/some...
Some Random Thoughts on Reason: Your Captain Chats with his CoPilot – Part 1
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About a week ago I finished reading Robert Tracinski's excellent Reader's Guide to Atlas Shrugged." Here's my review. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
Book Review: So Who Is John Galt, Anyway? by Robert Tracinski
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Here is my annual annotated list of books I read during the year. I read 31 books this year and partially read several others. They are about equally divided between fiction and non-fiction. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/what...
What I Read in 2025
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Last night my wife and I watched a Christmas movie that has strong parallels to the classic film, It's a Wonderful Life. In this essay I compare the two movies analyzing their thematic relationship to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/it-c...
It Could Have Been a Wonderful Life
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Eric Hoffer's first book, The True Believer, published in March 1951, made him famous as the Longshoreman Philosopher He was not a professional writer, nor an academic, but worked on the docks of San Francisco. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/who-...
Who are the True Believers?
Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky ! In 1951 an extraordinary book was published. Its author was a relatively unknown man who worked on ...
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Here's a short story I wrote for a university course in 2020. It's loosely based on a real incident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like Ayn Rand's The Night of January 16th, this story has two endings—your choice—depending on where our sympathies lie. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The Chin-up Man (A Short Story)
Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky ! I originally wrote this story for a university course on short story writing. I subsequently publishe...
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@prglibertarianism.bsky.social My review of Robert Tracinski's Dictator Since Day One jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...
Book Review: Dictator From Day One by Robert Tracinski
Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky ! MAGA loyalists might expect to see a book with the title Dictator From Day One from a leftist. But i...
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My review of Robert Tracinki's book Dictator Since Day One jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...
Book Review: Dictator From Day One by Robert Tracinski
Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky ! MAGA loyalists might expect to see a book with the title Dictator From Day One from a leftist. But i...
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My latest essay looks at the influence of both universalism and romanticism on Ayn Rand and her philosophy. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The Contrary Influence of Universalism and Romanticism on Ayn Rand
Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky ! Ayn Rand is an unusual figure in the history of philosophy. She started out as a novelist, a writer o...
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While people often decry inflation, deflation is also regarded as a bad thing by some economists. But is it? jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-...
Why Not Deflation?
Follow us on Facebook or Bluesky ! Consider the following scenario: You want to buy a new car. But you know that if you wait a...
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It was 25 years ago today that former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau passed away. I was a writer for About . com at the time and penned this tribute to the former PM. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-tr...
A Tribute to Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1919-2000)
Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky! Originally published at About.com - October 2, 2000 Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who served Canada as Prime M...
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Here's a new article on my blog discussing what I read for information and opinion. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...
Where I Get My News and Information
Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky ! We live in perilous times, but not for the reasons the current American government would have you beli...
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In March 1962, Ayn Rand wrote a piece about then FCC chairman Newton Minow trying to "persuade" broadcasters to produce more high-brow programming instead of the "vast wasteland" he said television had become. Rand's warning is particularly apt today. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/08/have...
Have Gun, Will Nudge
Ayn Rand in 1943 Although she wrote a number of non-fiction pieces over the years, The Objectivist Newsletter was Ayn Rand's first foray in...
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This is part 1 of my look at Steven Marche's provocative book The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/03/is-t...
Is There a Civil War Brewing in America?
Follow Us on Facebook and Bluesky ! At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reaches us, it must ...
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With Louise Penny's The Black Wolf out on Oct. 28th, here's look at the prequel, The Grey Wolf and some speculation on what might be in The Black Wolf. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-ta...
A Tale of Two Wolves
Louise Penny's 2024 novel The Grey Wolf is a masterpiece of speculative fiction. A terrific "what if?" tale. But before getting to a review...
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