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Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand: The Bitch Is Back

GQ | Andrew Corsello | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

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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

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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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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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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

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

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment

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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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Missing the Point of Atlas Shrugged

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media

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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

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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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Colbert Shrugged: Ayn Rand Institute Responds to 'Rand Illusion'

Juliette Powell | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

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Juliette Powell

Is Colbert, and the media in general, taking a cheap shot -- going for the easy laugh using Rand's philosophy of selfishness -- or are they using humor and irony to open a much needed public debate?

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Atlas: Shrug This!

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Dorchen

Please, go right ahead, underestimate the power of human beings to live without you golden gods who inhabit the penthouses of the world.

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GOP Rep: Obama Creating An Ayn Rand Dystopia

The Washington Independent | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

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Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), who gives his departing interns copies of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," told me today that the response to Preside...

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On Atlas Shrugged as a Guide to Our Times

Ellis Weiner | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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Ellis Weiner

She made it all up. The bad guys are straw men, serving a straw government, empowered by a straw civilization. The whole thing is a self-subverting and ultimately ludicrous grand opera of bad faith.

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Greenspan Shrugged? How Did Ayn Rand Influence Greenspan's Policy

wowOwow | Deborah Barrow | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business

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In other words, Ayn Rand's theory of the "morality of self-interest" exactly parallels Alan Greenspan's testimony today about his now-shaken belief i...

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"Atlas Shrugged" Still A Must-Read For Many Corporate Execs

New York Times | Harriet | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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One of the most influential business books ever written is a 1,200-page novel published 50 years ago, on Oct. 12, 1957. It is still drawing readers; i...

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