Since LB and I are ruefully commemorating our sixteenth annual missing of OCON (we are determined to go next year in Boston - then again, we say that every year), I thought I would link to an old video of John Ridpath defending capitalism. During the one and only time I attended OCON, in 1992, Professor Ridpath made perhaps the most moving speech I’ve ever heard, on the topic of the Founding Fathers and the principles of America.
I wish there were a YouTube video of this particular speech, but the one below aptly demonstrates John Ridpath’s amazingly sonorous voice, eloquence, and the workings of his great mind.
Below is a recent release of the Ayn Rand Institute. In it, Michael Berliner makes a wonderfully cogent statement for Independence Day. We should recognize and celebrate the fact that reason and individual rights are the founding principles of this nation.
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John Ridpath is an excellent speaker. It's too bad we just don't hear much from him anymore.
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