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Big Tobacco's Suicidal Detente

Recently, the U.S. Senate voted 78-15 to give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco as a drug. The...

Mar 16, 2010
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Andrew Bissell
4 Mins
Ayn Rand at 100: The Moral Defense of Freedom

She was born on February 2, 1905, in Russia. At the age of nine, she decided she wanted to become a writer. As a teenager, she lived through

Mar 16, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Atlas Shrugged in Haight-Ashbury: A Memoir

Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...

Apr 1, 2009
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Molly Sechrest
10 Mins
The Two Faces of Capitalism

Readers of Ayn Rand ’s Atlas Shrugged , which so notably portrayed the American businessman as a hero, may well be wondering what to say

Jan 1, 2008
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Robert Bradley, Jr
8 Mins
The Revolutionary Philosophy of Atlas Shrugged

One evening after the publication of The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand was on the phone, discussing her disappointment over early sales with....

Oct 7, 2007
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Robert James Bidinotto
9 Mins
Ayn Rand's Philosophical Stunt Novel

Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged a “stunt novel.” She meant that it is a rollicking entertainment: a mystery novel with dramatic twists and

Oct 7, 2007
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William Thomas
8 Mins
A Glimpse of the Early Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand. Her name is a kind of psychological litmus test; it inevitably provokes violent reactions of either fierce admiration or

Jul 7, 2007
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Robert James Bidinotto
3 Mins
Celebrity Rand Fans

It was the evening of May 13, 2004, and on PBS-TV’s Charlie Rose Show the host was chatting with actor Brad Pitt about Troy...

Jan 1, 2006
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: The Entrepreneur's Philosopher

One of my favorite photographs of Ayn Rand dates back to 1961. In it, she is the only woman at the President's Advanced Round Table of the

Dec 20, 2004
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Theodore Kinni
2 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: The Morality of Capitalism

Outside the concentration camps, which all collectivists felt necessary to establish in order to physically exterminate the last vestiges of

Dec 20, 2004
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Marian L. Tupy
4 Mins
Honoring Rand: Dagny Shoots and Flies

Dagny Taggart shoots guns and flies airplanes. These rational survival skills exhilarate all the heroes in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged...

Dec 20, 2004
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Madeleine Cosman
3 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: Encountering Objectivism, Discovering Myself

I was introduced to Ayn Rand's work in 1984 by Lou Torres, who had founded Aristos, an arts journal informed by her philosophy of art, two

Dec 1, 2004
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Michelle Marder Kamhi
3 Mins
Gifts, Gratitude, and Thanksgiving

With only a little imagination, Atlas Shrugged may be read as a tale about ingratitude. Many passages make the point, but the most instruct

Nov 1, 1999
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5 Mins
Ayn Rand Swings!

In order to answer that question, I have to share an experience. In the summer of 1991, I was on a three-week tour of Japan, and I finished

Jan 1, 1999
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Scott Bullock
7 Mins
Autobiography of an Idea

Ayn Rand said that her first novel, We the Living, was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Telling the story of...

Feb 1, 1998
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David Kelley Ph.D
8 Mins
Correspondence to Reality

The Letters of Ayn Rand. Edited by Michael S. Berliner, Introduction by Leonard Peikoff. New York: Dutton, 1995. 681 pp. including index.

Mar 1, 1995
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Donald Heath
5 Mins
Atlas University

Atlas Shrugged is more than a political thriller. It’s a love story. What is love? Is it selfish or selfless? (Featuring clips from Atlas Sh

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