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		<title>Weston&#8217;s disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have discovered that there is a name for Weston&#8217;s &#8220;disease&#8221;: it is called scientism. From Wikipedia, Scientism is the idea that natural science is the most authoritative worldview or aspect of human education, and that it is superior to all other interpretations of life.[1] The term is used by social scientists such as Friedrich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Till We Have Faces</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cover of Till We Have Faces I just finished reading C.S. Lewis&#8216; story Till We Have Faces. I found it very enjoyable. I had thought it would be an allegory like The Pilgrim&#8217;s Regress, with lots of literary and classical allusions and references. I thought I would need to at least know the original story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #10: June 24th, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Rodrigo Paoletti via Flickr In today&#8217;s session, we finished reading two extracts from Ayn Rand&#8216;s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged. We continued discussion some of the issues Ayn Rand raises in that book: capitalism, free trade, individualism, the axiom of non-aggression, etc. We read a few extracts from Rand&#8217;s 1974 address to the graduating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are Ayn Rand&#8217;s novels selling so well?</title>
		<link>http://sheffnersweb.net/blogs/reading/english-fiction/why-are-ayn-rands-novels-selling-so-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia A few weeks ago, I blogged about how well Ayn Rand&#8217;s books are selling, and some possible reasons. I found several articles on the Internet on this topic. Here is one which quoted a Wall Street Journal article, which gave 3 reasons for the growing popularity of Atlas Shrugged, Atlas Shrugged depicted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #9, June 3rd, 2009: The novel of ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Rodrigo Paoletti via Flickr Today, we read another excerpt from Ayn Rand&#8216;s novel Atlas Shrugged. We read the scene where Hank Rearden&#8216;s mother comes to his office to persuade him to give his younger brother, Philip, a job. The participant who borrowed my Japanese translation of Atlas Shrugged last week, brought it back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #8, May 27th, 2009: The novel of ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 13:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by morgret via Flickr Today&#8217;s session began with a summary from one of our participants of A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy. We read an extract from this novel earlier this year in session #3. Although this story does not have a happy ending, it is still rather lighter in tone than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ayn Rand and the Novel of Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 03:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Laughing Squid via Flickr According to this press release on the website of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, sales of Rand&#8217;s blockbuster Atlas Shrugged have greatly increased this year and last year: Reports from trade sources indicate that consumer purchases of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged have tripled in the first four [...]]]></description>
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