Notes on the John Allison Story
1. Jeremy Lott’s Diary received a long response from someone close to the Ayn Rand Institute who has requested anonymity. I have decided to grant that and give my informant the codename Deep Galt —...
View ArticleObjectivism Shrugged?
“I think you’re on to an interesting story. The whole John Allison-Cato thing has the makings of an epic disaster.” So begins the response of my source, Deep Galt, on the eminent appointment of the Ayn...
View ArticleOceania Has Never Been at War With the Cato Institute
In the second excerpt of Deep Galt’s communique, my source schools me on how Ayn Rand Institute Objectivists, who had for years denounced libertarians, can suddenly do a 180 and send one of their top...
View ArticleBREAKING! John Allison’s Non-Denial Non-Denial
In a letter today sent out to all Cato scholars, soon-to-be president John Allison addressed some concerns raised by Jeremy Lott’s Diary. Here is his response in full, with one bit of emphasis added. I...
View ArticleAtlas Mugged?
Meant to follow up on the John Allison thing yesterday but I didn’t for two reasons: 1) I’m under the gun on a major (7,000 words or so) piece on a certain esoteric faith that’s currently enjoying a...
View ArticleComplicity in Cato
In today’s installment of “John Allison, Show Us the Tape,” let me grab a posted comment and break it out for wider viewing. The writer is Irfan Khawaja, an Objectivist scholar I quoted when I broke...
View ArticleMore From Deep Galt
Related to the ongoing John Allison-Ayn Rand Institute-Cato Institute controversy, my source close to ARI writes: If you want to scare your old coworkers at Cato, refer them to a big dust-up from two...
View ArticleNew News on Catogate
Slate‘s Dave Weigel (my friend, etc., etc.) has scooped me on two points on the John Allison-Cato Institute-Ayn Rand Institute story — one minor, one major. We’ll start with the major one first, his...
View ArticleWho Would Ayn Rand Bomb?
Boy, it is not easy to make heads-or-tails of Ayn Rand and her devotees on foreign policy. In the book Ayn Rand Nation, sloppy journalist Gary Weiss read some of Rand’s writings on war and peace,...
View ArticleCatogate Update–a Q&A
Q: Why dive back into the John Allison-Cato Insitute-Ayn Rand Institute story with a self Q&A? Isn’t that pompous? A: Because 1) I’ve been putting a lot of little items together and 2) I’ve been...
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