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Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead Of The Modern Libertarian Movement

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, November 13th, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Book Reviews, Books

There are few figures in the American libertarian movement that gave rise to as much controversy or passion as Ayn Rand. Love her or hate her, it’s hard to find a libertarian who doesn’t have an opinion about the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. For many of us, she was the one who [...]

Tibor Machan Talks About Ayn Rand

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, November 6th, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, History, Individual Liberty

From Reason.tv’s series on Ayn Rand libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand talks about Rand and the reasons she rubbed some people the wrong way:

Reason Foundation Co-Founder Manny Klausner On Ayn Rand

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, November 4th, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Individual Liberty

In Part Three of Reason.tv’s series on Ayn Rand the co-founder of Reason talks about Rand’s influence in the libertarian movement:

The Intellectual Influence Of Ayn Rand

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Individual Liberty, Libertarians, Politics

In part two of Reason.tv’s week-long series on Ayn Rand, Reason Magazine co-founder Robert Poole discusses the role that Ayn Rand played in giving birth to the modern American libertarian movement:

The Enduring Legacy Of Ayn Rand

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, November 2nd, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Individual Liberty

Part One in Reason.tv’s new series about Ayn Rand:

Few authors have ever achieved the popularity that the novelist and essayist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) did. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943 and Atlas Shrugged in 1958, Rand became a full-blown cultural phenomenon, selling millions of books and inspiring countless readers—ranging from former Federal Reserve [...]

Not Surprisingly, New York Times Reviewer Doesn’t Understand Ayn Rand

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, November 2nd, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Books

Adam Kirsch reviews Anne Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made in yesterday’s New York Times and makes this curious statement
Nor would Rand, sooner than any other desert prophet, allow her message to be trifled with. When Bennett Cerf, a head of Random House, begged her to cut Galt’s speech, Rand replied with what [...]

The World Of Ayn Rand

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, November 1st, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Books, Individual Liberty

On Wednesday evening, I was fortunate to attend a forum at The Cato Institute featuring the authors of two new biographies of Ayn Rand — Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and Anne C. Heller, author of Ayn Rand and the World She Made.
It was a very [...]

Coming Next Week At Reason TV: Honoring Ayn Rand And Her Ideas

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Individual Liberty

This promises to be very interesting:

Coming November 2, Reason.tv will debut “Radicals for Capitalism: Celebrating the Enduring Power of Ayn Rand’s Ideas,” a new video series featuring segments on the novelist’s continuing presence in American culture and exlcusive interviews with Nathaniel Branden, Barbara Branden, Reason Foundation founder Robert W. Poole, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), and [...]

Ayn Rand In India

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 22nd, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Economics, Foreign Affairs, India, Individual Liberty

Jennifer Burns reports that Ayn Rand has developed quite a following on the other side of the world:
Not only do Indians perform more Google searches for Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but Penguin Books India has sold an impressive number of copies — as many as 50,000 [...]

No Mr. President, Theft Is Not Morality

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, August 20th, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Individual Liberty, Politics

Via Jason Pye comes this video of Howard Roark’s (played by Gary Cooper in the film version) speech from The Fountainhead

“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes [...]

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