“In an effort to publicize [Atlas Shrugged], Ayn agreed to an interview with Mike Wallace, on his New York television show, ‘Night Beat,’ the hard-driving program that began his rise to prominence. They liked each other immediately, and were to visit...
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...
From Did Ayn Rand Eat Babies For Breakfast?:According to Mahatma Gandhi, revolutionaries are first ignored, then laughed at, then attacked—and then they win. Reading George Monbiot’s piece on Ayn Rand, “How AynRand became the new right’s version of Marx” (The...