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Why Ayn Rand Was Right

Gary Weiss | Posted 05.07.2012

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Gary Weiss

Today, the revolution is being waged by the right. It will be successful -- unless the rest of us stop ridiculing Ayn Rand and begin taking her seriously.

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Fictional Characters You Want To Sleep With

januarymagazine.blogspot.com | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Literature, Edward Cullen, The Fountainhead, Robert Pattinson, Fictional Characters Liteature, Twilight, Terry Pratchett, Dominique Francon, Books News

If you could hook up with a character from fiction, who would it be?...

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Teen Angst Reads: Books That Rocked Your World At 16...But Fall Flat Now

flavorwire.com | Nina MacLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, Robert Pirsig, Ayn Rand, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Siddhartha, White Fang, Herman Hesse, Books News

We all have a few: the books we read when we were young that altered everything. These were the world-changers, the reality-definers, the stories you ...

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The Greenspan Hornet

Robert Brenner | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Cato Institute, Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Bernie Madoff, The Green Hornet, Libertarianism, John Galt, Objectivism, Seth Rogen, Anthem, The Fountainhead, We the Living, Derivatives, Comedy News
Robert Brenner

By day, Alan Greenspan is a mild-mannered Federal Reserve chairman. But by night, he fights a never-ending battle against government regulation and oversight.

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Changing Tides, Hope on the Horizon

Kate Harold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kate Harold

What happened to the tidal wave of hope that washed over our country two years ago, promising a flood of relief from an eight-year drought? Well, des...

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Under The Influence

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nabokov, Mocha Dick, Hemingway, Herman Melville, Lolita Nabokov, Moby Dick, All the King's Men, The Fountainhead, Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Huey Long, Ayn Rand, Gogol, Atlas Shrugged, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Clemm, Melville Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, F Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Slidepollajax, Poe, Tolstoy, Lolita, Constance Garnett, Books News

Writing a book is usually a long, hair-pulling affair for the author. But in the end, only one name appears on the front of the book: their own. What...

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Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' Movie

Posted 05.25.2011

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The big screen production of Ayn Rand's legendary novel "Atlas Shrugged" is well under-way, and Reason.tv has a behind-the-scenes look. In the video,...

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The Remarkable Life and Career of Patricia Neal

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Martin Ritt, Lillian Hellman, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Robert Osborne, Academy Awards, Tony Awards, King Vidor, Paul Newman, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Audrey Hepburn, Hud, Patricia Neal, Blake Edwards, Shelley Winters, Turner Classic Movies, Greta Garbo, The Fountainhead, Robert Altman, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Beyond the Forest, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

What sets artists apart from stars and competent actors is originality and authenticity. Patricia Neal had these and other rare qualities in spades.

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Boundaries and Priorities: Week 8 of "Mental Muscle" Boot Camp

Paul Katz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Fear, Boundaries, Elizabeth Gilbert Eat Pray Love, The NoHo Arts Center for New Thought, Selfishness, Elizabeth Gilbert, James Mellon, Mental Muscle, Priorities, Oprah Winfrey Show, Selflessness, Personal Boundaries, New Thought, No-Boundaries, Spirituality, Anxiety, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Paul Katz

This is not to say it won't take an enormous amount of work to get rid of my boundaries. I feel the walls in my head buckling and my priority is to keep knocking them down.

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Peterson's Deficit "Budgetball": The Fountainhead Meets Death Race 2000

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Rubin, Deficit Summit, Marie Antoinette, Ayn Rand, Caddyshack, Budgetball, Deficit Reduction, Washington Post, Pete Peterson, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Deficit Commission, Barack Obama, Death Race 2000, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

For anyone who's really concerned about government deficits, Pete Peterson's one-sided approach is incomprehensible. Unless, of course, he's acting in pure Randian self interest on behalf of himself and his peers.

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The Ghost of Free Market Past

James Campion | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Ayn Rand: The Bitch Is Back

GQ | Andrew Corsello | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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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Autumn in New York, Cinema Style

Cathy Whitlock | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cathy Whitlock

Cinema has provided a glamorous, coveted and implausible world filled with trendsetting decor and wraparound terraces against a seemingly endless Manhattan skyline -- all built on a soundstage.

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Maggie Speaks! The Littlest Simpson Says Her First Sentence While Acting Out "The Fountainhead" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most of us remember when Maggie spoke for the first time in season four of the "Simpsons." She said "daddy" as her father put her down to sleep fulfil...

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Greenspan Would Make Mentor Rand Proud

Washington Independent | Mary Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Recession, Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, Greenspan Blame, Housing Mess, Alan Greenspan Defense, Housing Crisis, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan Ayn Rand, Business News

He can spin all he likes, but many are not buying former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's attempts to distance himself from the housing crisi...

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