Jim Rutter
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a former university philosophy lecturer, trained in economics and philosophy. Now I devote most of my free time to pursuing my interests in theater and opera, writing plays and librettos. I also write on the intersection of political philosophy and economics. I live near Philadelphia, where I take in every production or performance that my schedule allows. |
| Interests | Economics, political philosophy, theatre, opera, ballet, olympic weightlifting, reading, writing, American and European football, French food and wine, traveling |
| Favorite movies | Fight Club, The Fountainhead, Casablanca, Tosca, Swan Lake (Sweedish Ballet), Closer, The Island, Serenity, Troy, The Punisher (Thomas Jane version), |
| Favorite music | Opera: Turandot, Tosca, Wagner's Ring Cycle (especially Seigfried), Don Giovanni, Gounod's Faust, Carmen, Rigoletto, Nabucco (for the choral movements), (again, a long list) Contemporary: Audioslave, Blink 182, Nelly, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Metallica, David Bowie, NIN, Belle and Sebastian |
| Favorite books | Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Thomas Sowell. Other fav's include: The Elementary Particles by Michel Houllebecqu, The Fountainhead, Beyond Good and Evil, Wagner's Opera and Drama, Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, The Wind up Bird Chronicles and Kafka on the Shore by Murakami, State of Fear by Crichton, plays by Tom Stoppard (especially The Invention of Love), plays by Shaw (but not for his specific political views), Bentley's "The Playwright as Thinker," this could become a very long list... |