…venal economic wishes of a group of small minded Objectivists more concerned with fostering human greed than human compassion? Happily, those that would deny food and shelter to refugee children are far…
…Joseph pour y raconter le roman très discuté d’Ayn Rand : « The Fountainhead » (« La source vive »). Ou comment la liberté de l’artiste doit primer sur toute idée de société de masse et d’altruisme….
…as Murray Rothbard indicated in his critique of Ayn Rand’s support of the “civilized men” of Israel against the Palestinian “savages”. In 1973, he wrote in The Libertarian Forum: “Perhaps the…
…and implicit criticisms of the view of the Ayn Rand Institute and others that a safety net is coercive in terms of its funding source—taxation—and thus inconsistent with individual freedom. The…
…Holcombe, DeVoe Moore – Professor of Economics: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged is a great summer read! The book has been in print continuously since its publication in 1957, and when…
Leila, a Dagny Taggart-like character who can’t fight the nefarious conspiracy herself, meets two unlikely heroes who join her resistance movement. You get the impression that Shafer loved everything about Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged except its politics.
Pethokoukis can’t have it both ways. He can’t assert that the welfare state is a moral achievement and then brush aside a challenge to the moral status of the welfare state on the grounds that it is a political non-starter. Either he’s taking a moral stand or he’s not — and if he is, then he has an obligation to back up that stand.
…hadn’t, here is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Objectivism, the first in the Harry Potter series as retold by Ayn Rand. Unfortunately the website doesn’t seem to provide a page with a link to all seven. Here…
…of capitalism.“ The programs had to include Ayn Rand’s potboiler "Atlas Shrugged” as part of the curriculum. According to the Telegraph, in 2012 Britain’s Cambridge University accepted a $6 million…
…do? I’m happy to! Currently, I’m curator at the Ayn Rand Archives, which is a department of the Ayn Rand Institute. The Archives is the world’s largest repository of Rand-themed material. Our mission…
…In an amusing account of the Ayn Rand wig-out over Rep. Paul Ryan’s anti-poverty plan, James Pethokoukis writes, “If you’re someone who finds that kind of reasoning — ‘Taxation is…
…out, Ryan’s plan is contrary to the principles of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, some of which Ryan has claimed to embrace. Rand recognizes that a person has a moral right to keep and spend his wealth according…