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The book that changed my life
Ela Dutt, The Indian American
The Fountainhead
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National service and slavery
Bradley Harrington, The Bulletin (Philadelphia)
Anthem
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White liberals and politically correct racism
Edmund Standing, Family Security Matters
The Virtue of Selfishness
Image
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Tea Party brings Ayn Rand back
Noah Kristula-Green, FrumForum
Atheism
Ayn Rand Center
Ayn Rand Institute
Atlas Shrugged
Capitalism
Essay Contests
Yaron Brook
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Greg Mangus at Mercy Lounge
Adam Gold, Nashville Scene
Chark Kingsolving assembled a crack team of local musicians to flawlessly execute a note-for-note recreation of Rush’s “2112” — the 20-minute suite that opens the band’s breakthrough record of the same name. [....] If Ayn Rand-informed Canadian prog rock ain’t your bag, it’s probably safe to assume Muscle Shoals-informed blue-eyed soul and gritty mod rock is.
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WikiLeaks mastermind Julian Assange: Evil genius or visionary hacker?
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, Politics Daily
Atlas Shrugged
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Philosophy in chiropractic education
Christopher Kent, Dynamic Chiropractic
As Ayn Rand wrote, “As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation, or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind’s wings should have grown.”
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LACMA opening Resnick Pavilion!
Jay Weston, Huffington Post
The Fountainhead
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Amber Heard heats up The Joneses and pursues The Rum Diary
Monsters and Critics
The Fountainhead
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Census plan continues to dog Harper
Michael Den Tandt, Toronto Sun
This is the most puerile argument of all: That killing the long-form census is a nod to this government’s “libertarian” sensibilities. It’s all about rugged individualism, we’re expected to believe. [Prime Minister] Stephen Harper is such a fine and principled libertarian. He presides over a government that spent, in the 2009-10 fiscal year, $237.8 billion, up from $207.9 billion the year before. This fiscal year the finance department projects spending of $249.2-billion — and a deficit of $53.8-billion. Every hen-house, outhouse and fence-row in Canada has received infrastructure funding. Ayn Rand move over.
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Forced to be free
Jesse Walker, Reason
Leonard Peikoff
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First Impressions owner wants focus on industry
Ocala Business Journal (FL)
The Fountainhead
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Why our ship is listing
Wes Browning, Real Change News - Dr. Wes
Ayn Rand says that if her heirs don’t deserve her money, because they didn’t earn it, well then neither do you. Prove that is not a valid argument. Hint: Substitute “drunken space-giraffes” for “her heirs.” Should drunken space-giraffes have inherited Ayn Rand’s wealth? Did they?
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What is orthodox Republicanism?
David Schultz, OpEdNews
The Palin makeover of the GOP combines Goldwaterism and Reaganism with a cult of personality, a multi-media advertising campaign, and a dose of Ayn Rand libertarianism. But Palinism is also built on what historian Richard Hofstadter labeled the paranoid style in American politics. It is an anti-intellectual world view nurtured in a fear that outside forces are threatening a way of life that includes faith in God, free enterprise, and democracy.
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No mystery in Sharon: Book-signing is a thriller
Kathryn Boughton, Litchfield County Times (CT)
Biographer Anne Heller will be present [at the Sharon Summer Book Signing ]with “Ayn Rand and the World She Made.”
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Samuel Edward Konkin III
Jeff Riggenbach, Mises.org Daily Article
[Sam Konkin’s] new roommate, another chemistry grad student, named Tony Warnock, turned out to be a big fan of everything related to Ayn Rand. Through Warnock, Sam was introduced not only to the writings of Rand, but also to those of a couple of economists — Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard — and to those of Robert LeFevre, the real-life anarchist philosopher on whom Robert A. Heinlein had based Professor Bernardo de la Paz.
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Freedom fest, taxes, deficits
Gary Rust, Southeast Missourian (Cape Girardeau, MO)
Wendy and I recently attended Freedom Fest, a three-day annual gathering of conservatives, libertarians, gold and silver investors, health food proponents, Ayn Rand readers, stock investors etc. It was an intellectually stimulating experience.
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When lightning strikes, be glad the public employees are there
H. Bruce Miller, The Source Weekly - The Wandering Eye (Bend, OR)
In ancient Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus – described by one website as “ambitious and an entrepreneur – the kind of man Ayn Rand might have appreciated” – made a fortune with his free-enterprise firefighting business. When a fire started in the city he’d rush to the scene, buy up the adjacent properties at bargain prices and then have his crew put the fire out.
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Two brainiac oddballs and one mean bastard
Steven Wishnia, The Indypendent
Capitalism
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Newberry Library Book Fair 2010 features over 120000 books
Carole Kuhrt Brewer, Chicago Now - Show Me Chicago
Atlas Shrugged