Anti-capitalists complain Ayn Rand collected social security. What they fail to mention is that Ayn Rand was physically forced to pay Social Security taxes throughout her long working career. She just wanted to get some of the money back (around $11,000) that was...
Don Watkins has an excellent piece on Rand’s influence on today’s political landscape:Rand has helped many people see that something has gone wrong in America. But they haven’t yet understood the source of the problem or Rand’s radical...
Writes Wendy Milling in President Obama Jabs At Ayn Rand, Knocks Himself Out – Forbes:In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama stated, “Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling...
From Ayn Rand Answers: What is your attitude toward immigration? Doesn’t open immigration have a negative effect on a country’s standard of living? AYN RAND: You don’t know my conception of self interest. No one has the right to pursue his self-interest by law or by...
Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, written by ARI executive director Yaron Brook and ARI fellow Don Watkins will be available in bookstores on September 18, 2012. Here is the table of contents from the book’s site: The...