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Ayn Rand's Ideas and Influence

Ayn Rand at 100: The Moral Defense of Freedom

She was born on February 2, 1905, in Russia. At the age of nine, she decided she wanted to become a writer. As a teenager, she lived through

Mar 16, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Atlas Shrugged in Haight-Ashbury: A Memoir

Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...

Apr 1, 2009
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Molly Sechrest
10 Mins
The Two Faces of Capitalism

Readers of Ayn Rand ’s Atlas Shrugged , which so notably portrayed the American businessman as a hero, may well be wondering what to say

Jan 1, 2008
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Robert Bradley, Jr
8 Mins
The Revolutionary Philosophy of Atlas Shrugged

One evening after the publication of The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand was on the phone, discussing her disappointment over early sales with....

Oct 7, 2007
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Robert James Bidinotto
9 Mins
Atlas Shrugged Changed My Life

Exactly forty years ago, this month, I was contemplating the tattered wreckage of my college career. And The Book was responsible.

Apr 5, 2007
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Robert James Bidinotto
6 Mins
Celebrity Ayn Rand fan: Ronald Reagan

A new collection of the former President's private letters reveals that Ronald Reagan was a fan of Ayn Rand's work. On pages 281-82 of......

Nov 9, 2006
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2 Mins
Celebrity Rand Fans: Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert

“In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand described what is surely one of the most emotionally charged tennis matches ever played. But her connection

Nov 9, 2006
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2 Mins
Celebrity Rand Fans

It was the evening of May 13, 2004, and on PBS-TV’s Charlie Rose Show the host was chatting with actor Brad Pitt about Troy...

Jan 1, 2006
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: The Entrepreneur's Philosopher

One of my favorite photographs of Ayn Rand dates back to 1961. In it, she is the only woman at the President's Advanced Round Table of the

Dec 20, 2004
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Theodore Kinni
2 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: Encountering Objectivism, Discovering Myself

I was introduced to Ayn Rand's work in 1984 by Lou Torres, who had founded Aristos, an arts journal informed by her philosophy of art, two

Dec 1, 2004
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Michelle Marder Kamhi
3 Mins
Celebrity Ayn Rand fans: Clarence Thomas

When articles are written about Ayn Rand's influence, almost invariably they mention Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

Nov 1, 2001
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3 Mins
Ayn Rand Swings!

In order to answer that question, I have to share an experience. In the summer of 1991, I was on a three-week tour of Japan, and I finished

Jan 1, 1999
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Scott Bullock
7 Mins
Autobiography of an Idea

Ayn Rand said that her first novel, We the Living, was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Telling the story of...

Feb 1, 1998
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David Kelley Ph.D
8 Mins
Correspondence to Reality

The Letters of Ayn Rand. Edited by Michael S. Berliner, Introduction by Leonard Peikoff. New York: Dutton, 1995. 681 pp. including index.

Mar 1, 1995
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Donald Heath
5 Mins

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