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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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...)
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...)
"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...)
Regarding economics, if you haven’t read Ayn Rand lately, I suggest that you do as her books pretty well capture the mindset. This new administration hates weak, unproductive, socialist people and policies, and it admires strong, can-do, profit makers. It wants to, and probably will, shift the environment from on...(Read more...)
The Wikipedia article on Ayn Rand's Night of January 16th was featured on Wikipedia's opening page today. (By tomorrow, there will be a different "featured article.") The article itself is permanently located here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_January_16th(Read more...)
Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 3/05, 9:51am
This first person narrative about combat in Afghanistan has three oblique referenences to Atlas Shrugged. Just as the author does not stop to explain the technical terms of the infantry - there's a glossary in back - he does not explain Atlas Shrugged or Ayn Rand, just as he assumes that the reader knows Harry Potter ...(Read more...)
Her novel The Fountainhead is one of the few works of fiction that Donald Trump likes and she has long been the darling of the US right. But only now do her devotees hold sway around the world(Read more...)
Atlas Shrugged: quirky, postmodern Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 10/20, 3:59am
"Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, is a classic American novel about individualism, the power of society, and the determination of self-selected leaders. Complex and difficult in places, it is in many ways the first postmodern novel." -- The Leader's Bookshelf, edited by Admirial James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) and R. Manning ...(Read more...)
