Ayn Rand

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• A Libertarian Ignorance Of General Welfare Challenges Jared Polis

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 429
  Stephen Baileys opposition to health care reform, and other government programs to help Americans, is based upon a profound misunderstanding of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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• Objectivist seance: Interviewing Ayn Rand

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 125
  In 1998, freelance writer Paul Spinrad pitched a story to Wired magazine. He wanted to write about Ayn Rand, who I guess has written a couple of books about stuff , but that wasn’t good enough for Wired. So at the editor’s request, he set out to interview Rand. That Rand died 16 years earlier was of little ...
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• petervidani:artsandcrafts:viaThis is my minds eye on a Howard...

  
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  petervidani : artsandcrafts : via This is my minds eye on a Howard Roark home…
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• CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 139
  Posted on a private YahooGroup last week: Some of you may not be Ayn Rand fans, but the following chapter from Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal seemed very relevant to what is happening currently. Its amazing that this was written over 40 years ago! Make sure to read the excerpt from the Nazi Party political program ...
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• Could Asians Be Assimilating On Western Free Market Ideals?

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 131
  Asians now comprise as the fastest growing nationalities among foreign students in America. Thats according to the Economist , ``STUDENTS flock to American universities from all over the world. But according to the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, over 40% of the 106,123 foreign students in the country ...
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• The Passion of Ayn Rand

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 433
  Who knew? Apparently, it was a 1999 TV movie . I only happened to run across it quite by accident while searching for a particular track from one of my favourite progrock bands, but it struck me as quite amusing. Anyway, a little late night music. Feel free to discuss objectivism if you like… I know our ...
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• “Voices for Reason” Now on Kindle

  
  KFFB 106.1 FM -- Arkansas Radio -- Online Radio--Arkansas Politics — Authority: 141
  WASHINGTON–The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights is pleased to announce that its daily blog Voices for Reason is now available for download onto the Kindle reader. The blog delivery service can be purchased through Amazon.com for $1.99 per month. From Amazon: “Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to ...
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• Life at HOK 2009 Reading List

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 134
  What do planners and designers read? Just in time to provide us all with some desperately needed last-minute holiday gift ideas, we asked our Life at HOK bloggers to tell us the books they most enjoyed in 2009. In return we got nothing resembling a trend, unless you can spot one amid the detective novels, cult ...
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• Links: Tidying Up Before The Holidays

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 562
  Edward P. Jones ‘ The Known World is now available in Arabic . (Can’t “Winner of the Pulitzer Prize” be translated too?) J.D. Salinger figured that The Catcher in the Rye was unfilmable . He also noticed when somebody needed a new typewriter ribbon . One man’s effort to rehabilitate the ...
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• Rhode Scholars take the Road to Wall Street

  
  The Undercurrent — Authority: 115
  Elliot Gerson, secretary of the Rhodes trust, points to an interesting trend: In the past thirty or so years, Rhodes Scholars have disproportionately chosen to go into Wall Street careers. He writes:“Only three American Rhodes scholars in the 1970s (out of 320) went directly into business from Oxford; by the late ...
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• Political Culture: Ayn Rand’s Polemical Porn

  
  Popdose — Authority: 637
  Here’s the thing about reading Ayn Rand : She forces you to think the way she does. Once you’ve immersed yourself in her black-and-white worldview — and once you’ve adjusted your expectations to accommodate her rhetorical method, in which every fictional event is created as a forum in which she can ...
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• Political Culture: Ayn Rand’s Polemical Porn

  
  Popdose — Authority: 637
  Here’s the thing about reading Ayn Rand : She forces you to think the way she does. Once you’ve immersed yourself in her black-and-white worldview — and once you’ve adjusted your expectations to accommodate her rhetorical method, in which every fictional event is created as a forum in which she can ...
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• If I had a vote, I’d vote against Bernanke.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  Ben’s problem is that his view of reality is one-sided. He’s an inflationist, a disciple of Greenspan, who was a disciple of Ayn Rand. Ben believes only in the Sunlight, only in the Summer, only in the ‘Growth Stage’….only in expansion. A society can’t expand for ever. That’s why interest rates go two ...
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• The Devil and Rand Paul

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 674
  Just when you begin to think that its literally impossible for Rand Pauls Senatorial campaign to get any more entertaining: The gentleman behind the mike is Chris Hightower, Rand Pauls campaign spokesman. In addition to his affection for Satan , Mr. Hightower appears to have demonstrated an unfortunate aversion ...
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• Ayn Rand was a total crackpot.

  
  Ssnot! — Authority: 124
  In case anybody didnt know that... http://www.slate.com/?id=2233966 In her 70s Rand found herself dying of lung cancer, after insisting that her followers smoke because it symbolized "mans victory over fire" and the studies showing it caused lung cancer were Communist propaganda. By then she had driven almost ...
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• Anthem by Ayn Rand

  
  Food or Poison — Authority: 92
  Atlas Shrugged gets most of the press nowadays, but Ayn Rand has another work that perhaps serves as a better introduction to her works. Particularly for younger folks, Anthem provides a glimpse into Ayn Rand’s sense of life that is far shorter and more accessible than Atlas Shrugged. Amazon’s description ...
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• Was Ayn Rand a prophet, or scapegoat?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Ayn Rand is back. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the long-dead novelist and philosopher has become prophet and a scapegoat. Liberals blame her for the economic collapse, citing the influence of her most famous acolyte, Alan Greenspan. Conservatives hail her as a visionary who saw it ...
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• Ayn Rand and America’s New Culture War

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  From Rush Limbaugh to President Obama, Ayn Rand and her book Atlas Shrugged are recalibrating America.From Fox News to the passenger sitting next to you reading “Atlas Shrugged” on your commute to work, Ayn Rand seems to be everywhere. Since the economic collapse of 2008, the controversial novelist and philosopher ...
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• Romancing the Stone-Cold Killer: Ayn Rand and William Hickman

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  "A wonderful, free, light consciousness" born of the utter absence of any understanding of "the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people." Obviously, Ayn Rand was most favorably impressed with Mr. Hickman. He was, at least at that stage of Rands life, her kind of man. So the question is, who exactly was he? ...
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