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...
Don Watkins on Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand — Why Are You Still So Misunderstood?:In the summer of 1921, a young Ayn Rand saw Moscow for the first time. “I remember standing on a square,” she would later recall. “And it suddenly struck me. . . . ‘How enormous it is,... 
