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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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...

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This is Not Real Life

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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Book Review: Dreams of Orphans by Vinay Kolhatkar

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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-...

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How Big Fraud is Aided and Abetted by Big Tech and What We Can Do About It

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I recently read a book called Abundance by a couple of liberal progressive writers. I found fascinating. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-bo...

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A Book on Optimism and Abundance From an Unusual Perspective

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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...

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Comparative AI: Exploring the Nuanced Differences Between the Major AIs

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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...

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It Can't Happen Here! Or Can It?

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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...

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Artist's Reflections

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

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...

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A Serious Book About Artificial Intelligence — And About Ourselves

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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...

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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...

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A Chat With CoPilot on Artificial General Intelligence and Sentience: Part 1

jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

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-...

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The Techno-Authoritarian Blueprint for America Part 3

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Part 2 of my chat with Microsoft's AI, CoPilot on reason. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/02/your...

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Your Captain Chats With his CoPilot about Reason – Part 2

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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...

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Some Random Thoughts on Reason: Your Captain Chats with his CoPilot – Part 1

jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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...

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Book Review: So Who Is John Galt, Anyway? by Robert Tracinski

jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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...

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What I Read in 2025

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

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...

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It Could Have Been a Wonderful Life

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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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-...

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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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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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-...

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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...

jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

@prglibertarianism.bsky.social My review of Robert Tracinski's Dictator Since Day One jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

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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...

jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

My review of Robert Tracinki's book Dictator Since Day One jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

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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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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

My latest essay looks at the influence of both universalism and romanticism on Ayn Rand and her philosophy. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

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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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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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-...

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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...

jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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...

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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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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Here's a new article on my blog discussing what I read for information and opinion. jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...

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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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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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...

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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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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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...

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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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jollylibertarian.bsky.social @jollylibertarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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...

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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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