What you think you know is wrong. The specter of libertarianism is haunting America. Advocates of sharply reducing the government’s size, scope and spending are raising big bucks from GOP donors, trying to steal the mantle of populism, being blamed for the demise of Detroit and even getting caught in the middle of a battle for the Republican ... MORE
Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
Nick Gillespie: 5 Myths About Libertarians
What you think you know is wrong. The specter of libertarianism is haunting America. Advocates of sharply reducing the government’s size, scope and spending are raising big bucks from GOP donors, trying to steal the mantle of populism, being blamed for the demise of Detroit and even getting caught in the middle of a battle for the Republican ... MOREDaniel Hannan: Statism Is Turning America Into Detroit
Ayn Rand's Starnesville comes to life. Look at this description of Detroit from today’s Observer: What isn’t dumped is stolen. Factories and homes have
largely been stripped of anything of value, so thieves now target cars’
catalytic converters. Illiteracy runs at around 47%; half the adults in
some areas are unemployed. In many ... MORE
Capitalism In No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. The nineteenth century, many people believe, was an era in American history when workers were forced to toil in sweatshops twenty-eight hours a day for starvation wages. It was only when governments intervened, either directly on behalf of workers or indirectly by empowering unions, that conditions improved. ... MOREOnkar Ghate: A Liberal Ayn Rand?
Maybe liberals should think a little more long term. It's no secret that the right is awash in Ayn Rand. Tea Partiers
carry signs like "Who is John Galt?" and, astonishing for a novel
published 55 years ago, sales of Atlas Shrugged topped 445,000 last year. All of this has prompted researchers like Yale historian Beverly Gage to wonder, "Why is there no liberal ... MOREPresident Obama Jabs At Ayn Rand, Knocks Himself Out
by Wendy Milling. 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 misunderstood, we’d pick up.” I’m not trying to mock the President here – he is just repeating an old propaganda line that was hatched by Rand’s opponents – but I have to ask the “adults” ... MORE
John Aglialoro: Rand's Fight For The Rational Mind
Stop wasting time with the irrational. In three weeks we will be voting in, what many consider, the most important election of our lifetime, the 2012 Presidential election. If you’re reading this article, chances are you’ve already made up your mind whom you’ll be voting for. Good. But, what about your friends and family who haven’t? Are you going to take ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Dagny Taggart Goes To War
The battle for freedom. Dagny Taggart is not just the entrepreneurial heroine of Ayn Rand’s magnum opus novel, Atlas Shrugged. She is the inspiration of real women everywhere who are taking up her shield and fighting her battle for freedom using the weapons of entrepreneurship, education and free speech. The media continually talks about the ... MOREBusiness Insider: Rand's Dystopian Masterpiece
SEE ATLAS SHRUGGED II TRAILER HERE In a Leningrad University classroom in the early 1920s, as the professor drones on about orthodox Marxist theory, a young woman with an intense gaze is writing furiously in her notebook. The woman is Alisa Rosenbaum, later to be famous as Ayn Rand, and her jottings do not concern the relationship between ... MOREJ Tucker: Regulators Are Destroying Your Home Appliances
Say goodbye to automatic dishwashers that work. Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, the ebook of the week in the Laissez Faire Club, is a story about a government that hates, fears, and bans technology precisely because it wants to keep the people enslaved in a primitive state of being. Preposterous right? Wrong: this is going on every day right ... MOREJohn Tamny: Why Atlas Shrugged Part II Is A Must-See Film
Who is John Galt? For those lucky enough to have read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged,
they know well that it has a timeless quality to it. Most readers feel,
and with good reason, that a book from the 1950s was actually written
at the time and place in which they’re reading it. A college friend from Semester at Sea sent me his worn copy in ... MOREOmar Ghate: Ayn Rand's Appeal
The real question is why her appeal isn't greater. Paul Ryan is Romney’s pick for Vice President and now Ayn Rand’s name is on everyone’s lips. Many on the left are pillorying Ryan as an unrealistic “ideologue” because of his Rand connection. Many on the right accede, quickly trying to set aside Ryan’s admiration for "Atlas Shrugged" as youthful ... MORE
What Liberals Don't Understand About Ayn Rand
by Cathy Young. Ayn Rand, the Russian-born writer and self-styled philosopher who died three decades ago, is back in the news as a favorite author of Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. In recent years, the passionately individualist, pro-capitalist Rand has been embraced as a champion of freedom by many conservatives ... MOREDon Watkins: Atlas Shrugged Is Required Reading
The promise of freedom from welfare enslavement. It's not often that an American election sparks debate about a philosopher. But ever since Mitt Romney announced his selection of Paul Ryan as his vice presidential candidate, talk has turned to the ideas of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. Ryan is on record as being a fan of Rand's, and although ... MOREDon Watkins: Ryan, Rand And Rights
Talking about individual rights is a positive, but ... Whether he likes it or not, Paul Ryan’s worldview is going to be defined in large part by its distance from philosopher Ayn Rand’s. Ryan is on record as praising Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” and her moral defense of capitalism. He’s also on record as rejecting Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism. ... MOREAyn Rand's Long Journey To The Heart Of American Politics
by Jennifer Burns. In the heyday of her celebrity, it often seemed that the only appropriate public response to Ayn Rand was dismissal. In 1961, Newsweek magazine sent a reporter to investigate the growing circle of devotees clustered around the right wing novelist. Visiting the New York City headquarters of Rand’s Objectivist movement, the reporter declared ... MORE
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