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Author, philosopher and libertarian thinker Ayn Rand, writing mostly in post-war America, predicted with remarkable accuracy many of the social crises facing America today.
Libertarianism is for petulant children: Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and the movement’s sad “rebellion” Libertarians fancy themselves radicals, and yet their rallying cry can be reduced to "You're ...
Ayn Rand wrote two really gripping pulp novels and has long been an object of enduring fascination to a small number of enthusiasts. Rand is vaguely associated, in the popular imagination more ...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was not named after the objectivist philosopher and author Ayn Rand, his father clarified for Reddit users Thursday. "My wife had the children and she had the privilege of ...
A parent in the wealthy Texas town of Highland Park has challenged a book about people living near the poverty line, and suggested books by Ayn Rand, Ben Carson and Karen Hesse as replacements ...
Ayn Rand’s books such as The Virtue of Selfishness and her philosophy that celebrates self-interest and disdains altruism may well be, ... and our children no longer even talk to him. ...
The core of Ayn Rand's philosophy is that unfettered self-interest is good and altruism is destructive. So what if we indeed allowed ourselves to be blinded to all but our own self-interest?
To her detractors, Rand’s novels, as Lisa Duggan writes in her 2019 study “Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed,” glamorize rapacity and violence; they grant happy endings to ...