Jason makes some insightful comments on his old blog The Rational Egoist on creating a meaningful debate around Ayn Rand : The ridicule heaped on Rand and Objectivism is nothing new. All great new ideas are first ignored, then ridiculed, then attacked before they are...
The writers at The Washington Post would have us believe that Donald Trump’s cabinet picks resemble heroes from the pages of Ayn Rand’s novels (“The Daily 202: Ayn Rand-acolyte Donald Trump stacks his cabinet with fellow objectivists“). As a best-selling...
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...
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...