Last month the Ayn Rand Institute and the UCLA School of Law chapter of the Federalist Society organized an event “Is Free Speech Under Attack?. Eugene Volokh tells us that the “event was quite successful — I’m told that about 140 students attended — and...
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Washington Post recently stated that several of Donald Trump’s appointees are fans of Ayn Rand, the novelist-philosopher most famous for her 1957 best-seller Atlas Shrugged.”It’s a...
Photo: Ken Bennet/ Wake Forest University From journalnow.com: 1. Allison is an Objectivist who supports pro-capitalist policies Allison said Trump also sought his advice as an outside-the-box thinker that includes being a devotee of author Ayn Rand and her economic...
Don Watkins — coauthor of Free Market Revolution and Equal is Unfair ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvqK5X6LFg ) — has posted some some excellent comments on the GREAT John Allison for Treasury Secretary:Trump is apparently considering the great John...
From Otto Penzler: By the Book – The New York TimesWhat book might people be surprised to find on your shelves? I have virtually all the books written by Ayn Rand, several read more than once. She was the first person to have articulated so many of the things...
Greg Salmieri makes some fine points in his post Another Critic Who Doesn’t Care What Rand Thought or Why She Thought It, Only That She’s Wrong:Cummins still gets Rand wrong on a number of points, and I think she does so because she isn’t really...
Jonathan Hoenig over at Capitalistpig reminds us of philosopher Ayn Rand’s advice on “How to Pick a President?”:“In view of the general confusion on this subject, it is advisable to remind prospective voters of a few basic considerations, as...
Oscar Isaac — who starred in the seventh Star Wars film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron is a fan of Ayn Rand’s epic, best-selling novel, Atlas Shrugged (or at least the t-shirt!). STAR WARS and Atlas Shrugged have two...
ARI is happy to announce the launch of a new version of Ayn Rand Institute Campus, ARI’s online education website includes several exciting new features, including almost sixty complete essays by Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff, and more than 140 hours of audio-visual...
Writes Amesh Adalja on ‘Average Folks’ commentary distorted Ayn Rand’s views | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:Ayn Rand advocated unequivocally for laissez-faire capitalism, a system in which the individual rights of everyone — rich or poor, lazy or productive —... 
