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Ayn Rand

The Ghost of Free Market Past

James Campion | Posted 12.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Christianity, The Fountainhead, Atheism, Jennifer Burns, Atlas Shrugged, Trailing Jesus, Ayn Rand, Individualism, Objectivism, Books News
James Campion

If Jesus and Ayn Rand had ever spent any time together in a locked room, neither would be able decide which of them was God.

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The Unnatural History of Nontroversy

Matt Osborne | Posted 12.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Racism, David Koch, Msnbc, Larouche, Wingnuts, Teabaggers, Manufactured Outrage, Breitbart, Media, Tea Parties, Santelli's Chicago Tea Party, Illuminati, Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, John Birchers, Ayn Rand, Nontroversy, Americans for Prosperity, Koch, Direct Mail, CBS News, Rick Santelli, Media Criticism, Racism, Tea Party, Astroturf, Fox News Channel, Andrew Breitbart, Teabagging, Tea Party Protests, Barack Obama Racism, Freedomworks, Cnbc, Rick Santelli Rant, Racist, 9/12 Tea Party March, Racism in Politics, Lyndon Larouche, LaRouche Hitler, John Birch Society, Obama Wingnuts, Wingnutosphere, Charles Koch, Cnn, William F. Buckley, Koch Industries, Fox News, Council of Conservative Citizens, Atlas Shrugged, Media Bias, Media News
Matt Osborne

Don't tell me that nontroversy doesn't matter. With nearly as many Americans approving of Palin as Obama, nontroversy really, really matters.

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The GOP, Hooked on Hate: Three Traits All Toxic Political Movements Share

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate-Speech, Hate, Richard Restak, Federal Budget Deficit, Ayn Rand, M. Scott Peck, Sarah Palin, Immanuel Kant, Fox News, Alfred Adler, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Marcella Mroczkowski

Republicans in the age of Al-Qaeda have morphed into a Western, Christianist, mirror-image of their Islamist enemies. Bad political movements, like Tolstoy's happy families, are all alike. Look for three traits.

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Ayn Rand's Popular Again - And She's Still Just As Wrong

Ayn Rand | Marc AcitoDec 7th 2009 at 3:00PM | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Reason-Magazine, Objectivism, Business News

"She's back!" screams the cover of Reason, the magazine "For Free Minds and Free Markets," featuring a photo of right-wing icon Ayn Rand looking suspi...

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The New York Times' Best Books Of 2009

The New York Times | The New York Times Book Review | Posted 11.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Peter Ackroyd, Barbara Kingsolver, Best Books, Lorrie Moore, Books, Literary Prizes, Harold Evans, Sag Harbor, Wolf Hall, Margaret Atwood, Frankenstein, Jay McInerney, Holiday News, Ishiguro, Jay, Booker Prize, Cheever, Colum McCann, National Book Awards, Columbine, Karen Armstrong, Bestsellers, Ayn Rand, Notable Books, Open, New York Times, Jonathan Lethem, Alice Munro, Andre Agassi, Books News

The Book Review has made these selections from books reviewed since Dec. 7, 2008, when we published our previous Notables list. It was not easy pickin...

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From Randy To Rand: The New Political Fiction(s)

John Jeter | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Politics, Mark Sanford, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ayn Rand, Fiction, Memoir, Jenny Sanford, Non-Fiction, Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Books News
John Jeter

Governor Mark Sanford -- the man who has confused the Appalachian Trail with Argentina and still holds public office writes about the Objectivist Philosopher.

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Astoria Characters: The Veteran Bookseller

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: The Devil Wears Prada, Kamikaze, Dag Hamarskjold, Subway, Eleanor Roosevelt, New Yrok News, USS Missouri, Calendar Girls, Bookstore, Toyko Bay, We the Living, Jonathan Kellerman, Nagasaki, Astoria, Ayn Rand, Harry Fiegelson, Faye Kellerman, Ditmars Boulevard, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Yokosuka, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

There's no bookstore in the Ditmars section of Astoria. We don't need one. Harry puts the words out on the street -- his bookstand has been in the same spot for nearly a quarter century.

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Ayn Rand: The Bitch Is Back

GQ | Andrew Corsello | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Reading, Ayn Rand Resurgence, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Books, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand the Fountainhead, Books News

Goddamn, the experience of being 19 years old and reading Ayn Rand! The crystal-shivering-at-the-breaking-pitch intensity of it! Not just for that 19-...

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WATCH: Jon Stewart And Author Jennifer Burns On Ayn Rand Resurgence

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Ayn Rand Goddess of the Market, The Daily Show, Tea Parties, Jennifer Burns, Ayn Rand, Jon Stewart, Authors, Ayn Rand Revival, Charlize Theron, The Fountainhead, Author Interviews, Books, Atlas Shrugged, Books News

Jennifer Burns, author of the forthcoming book Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Market, talked to Jon Stewart last night about the resurgence of Ayn Rand in p...

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A Child Rapist Is Not a Political Prisoner

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Roman Polanski Arrest, O.J. Simpson, Ayn Rand, Woody Allen, Hollywood, Salman Rushdie, Whoopi Goldberg, Bernardo Bertolucci, Entertainment News
Ariel Gonzalez

A middle-aged man who treats a 13-year-old girl like an inflatable sex doll, and who then flees justice, is a degenerate and a coward. This is Humbert Humbert, not Nelson Mandela.

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Measuring Measurements: Rising GDP in the Great Recession

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Statistics, Free Market, Harper's, Gdp, Ayn Rand, Economy, Economic Recession, Recession, Business News
Harry Moroz

It is so easy in our current political environment to forget that GDP, the unemployment rate, the income tax burden -- a whole slew of measurements -- are freighted with judgments.

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.

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Who Isn't John Galt?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Empathy, Artists, Dick Cheney, Ayn Rand, Dollar, Ethics, Republican Party, Greed, Bob Marley, Bible, Architecture, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Evil, John Lennon, Human Rights, Wall Street, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Jimi Hendrix, Bubbles, Republicans, Entertainment News
Robbie Gennet

If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.

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Terry Goodkind: He's Got the Write Stuff & Lots of Fans Appreciate It

Ellen Sterling | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Evan Litt, Luxury Las Vegas Magazine, Press Play Productions Las Vegas, Natalie Dunwoody, The Law of Nines, Terry Goodkind, Ayn Rand, The Sword of Truth, Andrew Freeman, Entertainment News
Ellen Sterling

Terry Goodkind's new book, The Law of Nines , was released last Tuesday, and Saturday night, he threw a party celebrating the new book. I was lucky enough to go, and it was one of the most interesting parties I've ever attended.

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John Mackey as a Hero of Intellectual Integrity

Michael Strong | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business

Read More: John Mackey, Whole Foods, Ayn Rand, Business News
Michael Strong

The most annoying aspect of the partisan lynch mob of John Mackey is the claim that he is a "heartless CEO" when in actuality, he is loving, generous and a hero of intellectual integrity.

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A Reflection on Ayn Rand and Consumer Protection

Jim Randel | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Subprime Mortage Crisis, Corporate Greed, Capitalism, Ayn Rand, Business News
Jim Randel

When corporations are doing what they should do -- maximize profits -- they have no vision for the consumer.

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Health Care Debate Loses Coherence

Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage, Talk Radio, Tea Party, Health, Hannity, Obama Healthcare, Libertarian, Big Government, Obama Socialism, Ayn Rand, Universal Health Care, Cato, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Herzberg, Healthcare Costs, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

One suspects, however, that behind much of the "Don't Tread On Me" rhetoric directed at Obama is a spluttering "... but, but, but, you're black!"

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The Ayn Rand Character Flowchart

Cracked.com | Posted 08.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Ayn Rand Character Flowchart, Ayn Rand, Comedy News

Ayn Rand was a writer whose philosophical novels made famous her distaste for government and the poor. ...

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I'm Sorry, Right Wing Extremists

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

Read More: 2004 Election in Ohio, Dhs Right Wing Report, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Ayn Rand, Dhs Report Reaction, Right-Wing Extremism, Ohio, Sarah Palin, Media News
John Wellington Ennis

I am further struck that this piece would be the one to draw personalized reactions. I've authored other things I would expect to be more offensive or controversial.

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The Insanity of Ayn Rand: The Fountain-Brain-Dead.

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bad Movies, Patricia Neal, Novels, Ayn Rand, Turner Classic Movies, Jack Warner, The Fountainhead, Frank Lloyd Wright, Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged, Gary Cooper, Architecture, Star Trek, Movies, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

This movie is pro-selfishness and egoism (which is just egotism misspelled), and anti-altruism. It preaches, at length and in a superior tone, that Altruism is Bad. And it means it.

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Dullness: A Euphemism for Status Quo

Judith Ellis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Kbr, Ayn Rand, Tom Peters, Halliburton, Arianna Huffington, David Brooks, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Business News
Judith Ellis

Brooks and his ilk also like to pretend that there is some big separation between government and big business when in reality they have been in bed for years.

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WATCH: Tea Bags: Red Or Green? Scenes From A New Mexico Tea Party (Video)

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rush Limbaugh, Ayn Rand, Fox News, Albuquerque New Mexico, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Tea Party, Albuquerque-New Mexico, Los Angeles-California, Teabag, Tea Bagging, Video, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

There's a danger in mobs that allows people to act much worse than they ever would on their own.

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Missing the Point of Atlas Shrugged

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama, Media News, Socialism, Bailout, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Barack Obama, Media News
John Wellington Ennis

The lofty ideal of rational self-interest challenges the principle of personal responsibility, and lays the groundwork to rationalize anything.

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John Galt Has Left the Building

Juliette Powell | Posted 05.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill O’Reilly, Class Warfare, Politics, Obama Stimulus Package, Media, Glenn Beck Fox News, Ayn Rand Institute, Colbert Report 'the Word', Stephen Colbert, Juliettepowell, Wealth, John Galt, Colbert Report 'Rand Illusion', Republican, Conservative, Politics News, Wealthy, Money, Ruling-Class, Ayn Rand, Juliette Powell, Media News, Colbert Report, Atlas Shrugged, 33 Million People, Media News
Juliette Powell

If your moral duty is to serve your neighbor and anyone else who is in need, then you don't have the moral right to pursue your own life and happiness.

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GOP Calls For "National Day Of Foot Stamping & Lip Pursing"

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.05.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Ayn Rand, John Boehner, Dick-Chney, Michelle Malkin, Republican Party, Eric Cantor, Dick Cheney, Republicans, Comedy News
Lee Stranahan

National Republican leaders, frustrated by the popularity of President Barack Obama and widespread public support for his policies, vowed today to remain frustrated.

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