"Rand's writing (both fiction and non-fiction) emphasizes the philosophic concepts of objective reality in metaphysics, reason in epistemology, and rational egoism in ethics. In politics she was a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism and a staunch defender of individual rights, believing that the sole function of a pr...(Read more...)
Read what she said about the media in 1957 and see how current it looks. “It was their daily duty to serve as audience for some public figure who made utterances about the public good in phrases carefully chosen to convey no meaning,” Rand wrote in Atlas Shrugged. “It was their daily job to sling word...(Read more...)
Check Your Premises, published by the Ayn Rand Society of the American Philosophical Association, is by and for academics, but anybody can read it.(Read more...)
Writer "Akadjian" created these for The Daily Kos. They were meant in bad will, of course, but I found some insightful, even thoughful. So I cut and pasted my favorites and emailed them out to my objectivish friends.
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"There are, based on this census, 137 individuals identified by nickname or name (first, last or both), and 581 unnamed individuals identified by job title, relationship to a named character, or otherwise as indicated above, for a total of 718 individuals counted, as listed below."
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Here's a very obscure sighting I came across a few years ago. It's not an especially significant sighting, however, I do find the thought that some Blizzard Entertainment employees may be Objectivists (or Objectivist-friendly) amusing.
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Money is conducting an informal, self-selecting (and therefore pretty much useless) poll as to who should be the first woman on a dollar bill. The good news is that Rand is way out in first, with over half the vote. The bad news is that Eleanor Roosevelt is second with just over 10%. Some of the others (Earhart, Tub...(Read more...)
Maria Kang, who lost 40 pounds of post-pregnancy fat in eight months of eating right and exercising, was gobsmacked by the responses - all of whom came from people she had never met.
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