Ayn Rand
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The Ayn Rand revival...the ideologically driven collectivists, they're her heroes. That's what they look like in real life. Ayn Rand ain't the answer. Ayn Rand's the problem caricatured. The woman was off her trolley, but she certainly wrote some gripping... In this article: Ayn Rand, Socialism, John Galt, Alan Greenspan, Capitalism, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged |
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The Stranger - Slog | 6 days ago
Don't Get Your Ayn Rand Panties in a Bundle
Books Don't Get Your Ayn Rand Panties in a Bundle Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:26 PM Slog Tipper Martin wants us to know that Peter Bagge has a new cartoon over at Reason titled "Will Everyone Please Stop Freaking...
In this article: Reason, Fantagraphics, and William F. Buckley
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True/Slant | 6 days ago
The Bitch is Back (And she's going rogue…Ayn Rand, not Sarah Palin)
...been hearing this since I first read Atlas back in 1976.) Two new biographies have just been issued: Anne Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made and Jennifer Burns' Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. Both have received...
In this article: Sarah Palin, John Galt, Economics, Communism, Atlas Shrugged, Relativism, and Capitalism
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Boing Boing | 7 days ago
Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
...on Ayn Rand Previously:Richard Metzger on Ayn Rand - Boing Boing Young Conservative rappers explain Jesus, Ayn Rand, and ANWR ... Ayn Rand institute "shocked" by Harvard Medical Sc... More. Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover,...
In this article: Peter Bagge, Philosophy, Ideology, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Tax
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Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1 | November 13, 2009
The Ayn and Only
...and thorough denunciation of communism, conservatives have long had an uneasy relationship with Ayn Rand. Buckley more or less booted her and her growing contingent of followers out of the movement in the late 1950s. And Whittaker...
In this article: The Fountainhead, William F. Buckley Jr., Atlas Shrugged, Communism, Wendell Willkie, Capitalism, Individualism, and Objectivism
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The Corner on National Review Online | November 13, 2009
Welcome Back, Ms. Rand! -- By: Andrew Stuttaford
I'm far from being a Randian, Peter (FWIW, you can see my thoughts on Ayn Rand here), but if she is indeed having a mainstream moment (I'd be somewhat skeptical), then that merits at least two cheers. Rand was what she was and her philosophy...
In this article: Individualism, Collectivism, GOP, and Barack Obama
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Objectively, Ayn Rand Was a Nut -- By: Peter Wehner
Objectively, Ayn Rand Was a Nut [Peter Wehner] According to Politico.com, Ayn Rand - the subject of two new biographies, one of which is titled Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right - is "having a mainstream moment,"...
In this article: Philosophy, Conservatism, Whittaker Chambers, Atlas Shrugged, Transcendence, Objectivism, and National Review
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Independent.co.uk - Books | November 12, 2009
Ayn Rand: Can two new biographies unravel the mystery of the mad, sad heroine of the American right?
Johann Hari feels compassion for a monster Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie...
In this article: Philosophy, Bolshevik, Nathaniel Branden, Marion Parker, Amphetamine, Lung cancer, and Hollywood
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Politico: What Makes 2009 The Year of Ayn Rand?
What makes 2009 the Year of Ayn Rand is that thereaEUR™s a growing acceptance of the authoraEUR™s most stringent beliefs. Her fans disregard that Rand hated compromise aEUR" and therefore politics. She was an atheist and disdained...
In this article: Capitalism and Nick Gillespie
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The Seattle Times | November 06, 2009
Ayn Rand: goddess of the market, gateway to the American right
Originally published Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM Ayn Rand: goddess of the market, gateway to the American right Two new biographies of Ayn Rand tell the remarkable story of an author whose creed of radical individualism drew...
In this article: Nathaniel Branden, Individualism, Frank O'Connor, William F. Buckley, and Hollywood
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NPR | November 01, 2009
Ayn Rand's Conservative Call Echoes Today
...been horrified," Anne Heller tells All Things Considered host Guy Raz. Heller's new book is titled Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Heller calls Rand "perhaps the most important communicator of conservative ideas to the America people."
In this article: Glenn Beck, John Galt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Atlas Shrugged, Hollywood, Individualism, and Communism
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Ayn Rand (IPA: /pron/; – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism.
Born to a Jewish family and educated in Russia, Rand emigrated to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935-1936. She first achieved fame with The Fountainhead (1943), and her best-known work – the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged – was published in 1957. Rand's political views, reflected in both her fiction and her theoretical work, emphasize individual rights (including property rights) and laissez-faire capitalism, enforced by constitutionally limited government. She was a fierce opponent of all forms of collectivism and statism, including fascism, communism, and the welfare state. She was also an atheist, and promoted ethical egoism (which she termed "rational self-interest") as energetically as she condemned altruism (which she called "moral cannibalism").
- Birth Date:
- February 02, 1905
- Birthplace:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Death Date:
- March 06, 1982
- Place of Death:
- New York City, USA
- Spouse:
- Frank O'Connor
- Occupation:
- Writer
- Known for:
- Influenced By:
- Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Stirner, Victor Hugo, Isabel Paterson, Ludwig von Mises
- Influenced:
- Martin Anderson, Andrew Bernstein, Craig Biddle, Harry Binswanger, Nathaniel Branden, Barbara Branden, James Clavell, Steve Ditko, Edith Efron, Terry Goodkind, Allan Gotthelf, Alan Greenspan, Henry Hazlitt, Robert Heinlein, Robert Hessen, Erika Holzer, John Hospers, Penn Jillette, David Kelley, L. Neil Smith, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Edwin A. Locke, Tibor Machan, Charles Murray, Ron Paul, Leonard Peikoff, George Reisman, Murray Rothbard, John Ridpath, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, George H. Smith, Kay Nolte Smith, Tara Smith, Clarence Thomas, Sylvia West, Anne Wortham, Anton Lavey.
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