•Making it happen 
Lynnelle Bianco, MaineToday Business column on having "vision."Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. –Ayn Rand 07:46 PM    View blog reactions

•Decathlete excels at academics, art 
Sylvie Belmond, Moorpark Acorn (CA) Profile of student Alex Orechoff.Alex also enjoys reading and once the academic year is over, he plans to dive into the tower of books that are waiting for him. “‘The Fountainhead’ by Ayn Rand is next up on my list of books for the summer,” he said. 02:00 PM    View blog reactions

•Too many platitudes: Shikar 
L. Ravichander, andhracafe.com Movie review.Ever so often when things are seemingly too simple it is obvious that we have missed out on something very vital. Why else would as Ayn Rand reasons a philosopher prefer to be a cook at a dinner or a work of a genius lie abandoned among ruins? 01:56 PM    View blog reactions

•Hexclusive! GOP, Fortune 500 battle over 2006 hurricane branding 
Arnie Passman, Berkeley Daily Planet (CA) Humor.The GOP announced that the dollar be abandoned, and replaced with something called the Reagan Rand, named for Ronald Reagan and arch-conservative icon Ayn Rand. 01:53 PM    View blog reactions

•Those weird college ads 
Mike DeBonis, Slate The University of Southern Mississippi, though, wins the Ayn Rand Memorial Self-Actualization Award. What do a pensive painter, a guy in a library, and a woman at a computer have in common? "The courage to think for themselves and a university that fosters it. Southern Miss: Freeing the power of the individual." 01:45 PM    View blog reactions

•Funny band bared, 10 vows dared 
Rick Gershman, St. Petersburg Times (FL) Resolutions for 2006.5. Stop naming Ayn Rand as my main writing inspiration. At least until I read something by Ayn Rand. 01:43 PM    View blog reactions

• • •Hero / anti-hero / anarchist: Hollywood’s loners revisited - Part 3 
Mark S. Tucker, OpEdNews Movie review.Ayn Rand, one of the reputedly “great” champions of individualism, once known, proves to be a hollow (wo)man indeed. The Passion of Ayn Rand film shows why. 01:41 PM    View blog reactions

•Nightstand: Evan Aegerter 
Bellingham Herald (WA) Other favorites: [....] "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. 04:42 PM    View blog reactions

•Yield-curve nervousness? 
Rick Ackerman, GoldSeek While a student at New York University, Alan Greenspan belonged to a discussion group some now call the Ayn Rand cult, in which his nickname, appropriately enough, was the undertaker. 04:25 PM    View blog reactions

• •30 books for ‘06 
Kelly Savio, Gilroy Dispatch (Gilroy, CA) 25. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. This book is a mystery, a romance and a philosophic treaties. Rand isn't an easy read, but it's worth the struggle. Just arm yourself with some patience before sitting down with this one. 04:23 PM    View blog reactions

•Holiday spirit missing in D.C. 
Arkansas Leader Editorial opposed to deficit reduction legislation passed by the US Senate.Christmas in the Year of Our Lord 2005 in Washington, D.C., finds little children, the sick, the meek and the poor in spirit more out of fashion than ever before in our nation’s capital. The disciples are decidedly out of fashion, too, having been replaced by the less sentimental Grover Norquist and Ayn Rand.  04:16 PM    View blog reactions

•Hope and toil at India’s call centers 
TMCnet In his first call-center job, [Kapil] Khaneja had gone by the name "Steven Mallory," plucked from his favorite book, "The Fountainhead," by Ayn Rand. His supervisor thought "Howard Roark" -- the name of the novel's protagonist -- would be too obvious. Now a manager, Khaneja uses his real name. 04:08 PM    View blog reactions

•A good conversation turns me on 
Farhana Farook, Daily News & Analysis (Mumbai) Interview with actor and TV host Mayank Anand.My top books are Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. 04:06 PM    View blog reactions

•The mess Greenspan leaves 
Stefan Karlsson, Mises.org Daily Article Before he became Fed Chairman, some believers in sound money thought Greenspan might push for a less inflationary monetary policy. They pointed to his past as a close associate of Ayn Rand and author of the "Gold And Economic Freedom" chapter in Rand's Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. 02:43 PM    View blog reactions

•A time of year and state of mind 
Gery Steighner, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The Catholic Encyclopedia, a good reference work, says the antecedent to the word "Christmas" doesn't show up until the 11th century, some time after the birth of Christ and some time before the capitalist Christmas of modern practice -- which the Ayn Rand Institute says is just fine if it makes you happy. 02:41 PM    View blog reactions

• •Nice article 
Mark M, News Today (Chennai, India) Letter to the editor.I was glad to see such a nice article on a noble person like Ayn Rand. Her ideas are inspirational, and if more people know about her, the world would be a better place. 10:51 PM    View blog reactions

• •Well-researched 
Jack Crawford, News Today (Chennai, India) Letter to the editor.Thank you for the article on Ayn Rand. It was a well-researched one. But l would like to bring to the attention of the writer the fact that there is a large difference in the ideas of the Ayn Rand Institute and the so-called Objectivist Center. The latter is not true to the ideas of Ayn Rand. 10:49 PM    View blog reactions

•No comment - and it wasn’t me, says accused Pratt 
Marc Moncrief, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) On a businessman charged with price collusion.Three copies of The New Machiavelli and two of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged stand out among the collection of books in the office of cardboard king Richard Pratt. 10:45 PM    View blog reactions

• •Reading “Lolita” in Alabama 
Allen Barra, Salon I knew of only one other writer who inspired such an odd cult among high schoolers, Ayn Rand, who, like Nabokov, was a Russian émigré with an intense hatred of communism. Aside from that, the two could not have been more different. 10:43 PM    View blog reactions

•Was Spock an Austro-libertarian? 
Jack Maturin, Mises.org Daily Article Many science fiction writers in the 1950s and 1960s were deeply interested in the ideas of freedom and many may have read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Perhaps some of those who contributed to Star Trek were fascinated enough by Rand's promotion of Von Mises to investigate his economics in Human Action, which then helped them add a deeper philosophical quality to Commander Spock's logic? 03:38 PM    View blog reactions

•Friends and co-scholars to the end 
David Ronquillo, Brighton Standard Blade (CO) [Tahlia] De Maio said she first became interested in science and astrophysics through the Discovery Channel and Discover magazine, as well as from her favorite author, Ayn Rand, who writes both fiction and nonfiction. 03:35 PM    View blog reactions

•Lost Liberty hotel developer announces anti-eminent domain song 
Bob Ellis, Dakota Voice (SD) The Lost Liberty Hotel will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged." 03:32 PM    View blog reactions

•An interview with Tim Schmidt 
Richard Stevens, Free-Market News Network Interview with the founder of the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA).About five years ago I happened to read a few books that really opened my eyes to self-defense, firearms and the second amendment. (Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Unintended Consequences by John Ross.) 10:37 PM    View blog reactions

• •Platonic competition 
George Reisman, Mises.org Daily Article The concept of "pure and perfect competition," [...] proceeds from an ideology that obliterates the existence of individuals, of private property, and of exchange. It is the product of an approach to economics based on what Ayn Rand has characterized as the "tribal premise." 09:20 AM    View blog reactions

•A studio built on good deeds and good luck 
J. Kelly Nestruck, National Post (Toronto) On former eBay president Jeff Skoll's Participant Productions.He spent the long, sunny days with his nose in a book, transported away by dystopian fiction like Brave New World and the works of Ayn Rand, James Michener and James Clavell. "A lot of the stuff I was reading was scary," recalls Skoll over the phone from Los Angeles. 09:17 AM    View blog reactions