Lindsay Perigo

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Lindsay Perigo (born December 14, 1951) is a former New Zealand television and radio broadcasting personality, founding member and first leader of the Libertarianz political party and an Objectivist organisation called Sense of Life Objectivists (SOLO), billed as a forum for "homeless Objectivists," i.e., those who feel marginalized by the two predominant Objectivist organizations, the Ayn Rand Institute and The Objectivist Center.

Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Perigo was considered Radio New Zealand’s, then Television New Zealand’s, foremost political interviewer. He astonished many by quitting television work altogether in 1993, in the process denouncing TVNZ news and current affairs as "brain dead". Thereafter he returned to radio for several years, with a libertarian show on Radio Pacific and on the now defunct Radio Liberty[1].

Perigo is former editor of the Free Radical, a libertarian/Objectivist magazine founded by him with backing from David Henderson in 1994. Deborah Coddington, former Free Radical assistant editor, wrote a biography of Perigo entitled Politically Incorrect in 1999, which was published by Radio Pacific[2].

Perigo's aggressive style of writing has garnered him praise, but also criticism in his perceived contribution to Objectivist and Libertarian causes, most notably in Barbara Branden's speech "On Objectivist Rage" to which he responded in his speech "In Praise of Objectivist Rage". Once friends, Perigo and Branden found themselves on opposite sides over the publication of James Valliant's THE PASSION OF AYN RAND'S CRITICS, since Perigo offered an open forum via his SOLO website for that book's discussion after coming to accept that book's debunking of Barbara and Nathaniel Branden's accounts of their relationship with Ayn Rand. Perigo offered to let Ms. Branden address Valliant, an offer which was refused. At the beginning of 2008, the pro-Branden Atlas Society tried to bury the hatchet with Perigo, who had been their top-rated speaker at their 2004 Summer Seminar, by inviting him to speak at their 2008 Seminar. Perigo was blackballed when the invitation was rescinded after a storm of protest from Barbara Branden and her supporters.

Recently, Perigo has accused the government of New Zealand of unleashing war on its citizens via its Electoral Finance Bill, and claimed that New Zealanders are as entitled to remove the government forcibly as were the American colonists[3].

He is a noted fan of singer Mario Lanza, having written the foreword for Armando Cesari's Lanza biography, Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy[4]. He has interviewed Jose Carreras[5] and Luciano Pavarotti, and appeared with Dame Malvina Major in a television tribute to Pavarotti recently[6].

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  1. ^ Coddington, Deborah. Perigo! Politically Incorrect, Radio Pacific Publishing, Auckland, 1999.
  2. ^ Coddington, Deborah. Perigo! Politically Incorrect, Radio Pacific Publishing, Auckland, 1999.
  3. ^ Perigo, Lindsay. "SOLO-NZ Op-Ed: EFB—Clark/Cullen's Declaration of War on New Zealand", 20th November, 2007.
  4. ^ Cesari, Armando. Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy, Baskerville Publishers, 2004.
  5. ^ Perigo, Lindsay. Lindsay Perigo interviews star tenor José Carreras (Part 1), 1994.
  6. ^ Campbell Live. "Pavarotti Remembered: Lindsay Perigo & Dame Malvina Major", September 2007.

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