• Audiobooks: Architects 
Kristin Kloberdanz, Chicago Tribune The Fountainhead  The Fountainhead By Ayn Rand, read by Edward Herrmann Highbridge Audio. In this classic novel, an idealistic young architect struggles to maintain his integrity.     Share on Facebook

• The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World 
Bill Emmott, The Times (London) Review of Alan Greenspan's memoir.[Greenspan's] intellectual mentor, a Russian-American libertarian called Ayn Rand, nicknamed him “the Undertaker” because of his serious demeanour and dark suits.     Share on Facebook

• ‘Meet the Press’ transcript for Sept. 23, 2007 
Tim Russert, Meet The Press (NBC) Transcript of TV interview with Alan Greenspan.Q: This is what you wrote about your first date [with TV journalist Andrea Mitchell]. “Finally when the holidays arrived, we scheduled a date for December 28, 1984. It was a snowy night. It might not be everybody’s idea of first-date conversation, but at the restaurant we ended up discussing monopolies. I told her I’d written an essay on the subject and invited her back to my apartment to read it. We did go to my apartment,” “I showed her this essay I’d written on antitrust for Ayn Rand. She read it, and we discussed it.” Do you often lure women back to your apartment by saying, “You want to see my essay”? A: I didn’t have any sketchings or etchings.     Share on Facebook

• • Learning from Greenspan 
William Watson, Financial Post (Toronto) Atlas Shrugged  The Fountainhead  On Alan Greenspan's memoir, The Age of Turbulence.Many of [Greenspan's] chapters on different countries begin with anecdotes about interesting foreign officials he's met. For instance, Vladimir Putin's former chief economic advisor, who wanted Greenspan, next time he was in Moscow, to get together with a few Russian friends and talk about Greenspan's friend Ayn Rand, the libertarian thinker and novelist (Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead), who stood beside him when he was sworn in as the head of Gerald Ford's Council of Economic Advisers.     Share on Facebook

• • • Alan shrugged 
Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard Atlas Shrugged  Review of Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence.By [the late 1950s], Rand had published her two thick, preposterous novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and stood poised on the brink of international stardom. Her creepy philosophy of Objectivism, placing the self at the center of the moral universe, was being enthusiastically embraced, as it still is, by tens of thousands of pimply teenage boys in the dreamy moments between fits of social insecurity and furious bouts of masturbation.     Share on Facebook

• • • Happy anniversary, masters of the universe 
Leigh Buchanan, Inc. Atlas Shrugged  Atlas Shrugged was largely panned upon publication and still has its detractors. ("Obviously the high priestess of free enterprise never met the men of Enron, Adelphia, and WorldCom," scoffed Arianna Huffington in her book Pigs at the Trough.) But countless entrepreneurs credit the book with inspiring them to start their businesses and persevere in tough times. In honor of the novel's 50th anniversary, Inc. asked some Rand-obsessed entrepreneurs how Atlas Shrugged changed their lives.     Share on Facebook

• • • Ayn Rand fans mark the 50th anniversary of ‘Atlas Shrugged’ 
Peter Larsen, Orange County Register (CA) Ayn Rand Institute  Atlas Shrugged  The Fountainhead  Despite all the challenges it presented, despite the mostly negative reviews it received from book critics on its release, "Atlas Shrugged" endured, finding new readers – more readers than ever, in fact – in each new generation.     Share on Facebook

• Floating utopias 
China Mieville, In These Times On a planned libertarian "Freedom Ship."Claiming a lineage with post-Enlightenment classical liberalism, as well as in some cases with the resoundingly portentous blatherings of Ayn Rand, all of [libertarianism's] variants are characterized, to differing degrees, by fervent, even cultish, faith in what is quaintly termed the “free” market, and extreme antipathy to that vaguely conceived bogeyman, “the state,” with its regulatory and fiscal powers.     Share on Facebook

• Growing up Star Trek 
Peter Suderman, National Review Online The [pilot] episode [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] comes across as a sort of inverted Randian parable that shames anyone who would withhold anything from a person — or in this case, a glowing, city-sized, tentacled alien — who claims need. Society’s job, we’re to understand, is to give freely without regard to cost.     Share on Facebook

• Business journalism on the wrong track 
Djelloul (Del) Marbrook, Student Operated Press If you consider how much influence the ideas of Ayn Rand have had on such contemporary money mavens as Alan Greenspan, the recently retired head of the Federal Reserve, we’re increasingly a society committed to Rand’s notion of enlightened selfishness, a notion that flies in the face of three major Biblical religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism.     Share on Facebook

• Contradictions seem to abound in the United States today 
Dave Gebhard, Record-Bee (Lakeport, CA) Atlas Shrugged  Letter to the editor.Has Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" convinced so many people that those who benefit most from America's brand of capitalism, should not pay more in taxes? If our system of laws allows the upper class to live in total sybaritic luxury, shouldn't they pay for the privilege?     Share on Facebook

• • Global warning 
Andrew Hultkrans, Artforum Atlas Shrugged  On an appearance by Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.Klein [...] mentioned that [Alan] Greenspan, a Friedmanite and (Ayn) Randian, wrote in his memoir that Rand’s novels and “philosophy” lent a morality to what he was already doing as a Wall Street ingenue; to which [Harper's Magazine editor Roger] Hodge quipped, “That’s the best kind of morality.” True enough, but as I left the chilly auditorium and made my way through the old library, it occurred to me that the world might be a bit better if The Shock Doctrine sold as many copies as Atlas Shrugged.     Share on Facebook

• Nanny State 911! 
Nick Gillespie, Reason Interview with David Harsanyi, author of Nanny State.Q: What are the political milestones for you? A: As a youngster I was a big fan of Ronnie Reagan -- the president, not the MSNBC star. I had my Ayn Rand phase, as well.     Share on Facebook

• Beyond wedding cakes and frippery 
Mark Kingwell, Globe and Mail (Toronto) The Fountainhead  On skyscrapers.Kafka, Bellow and DeLillo have all written fiction that showcases the skyscraper; so, for that matter, has Ayn Rand (but watch King Vidor's wacky film version instead).     Share on Facebook

• • • Atlas shrugs again 
Marc E. Babej and Tim Pollak, Forbes Ayn Rand Institute  Atlas Shrugged  Yaron Brook  On the increasing cultural influence of Objectivism and advice on how to market the philosophy.Rand, an ardent advocate of rational egoism and capitalism, might have been the bane of academics in her lifetime, but now objectivism is taught at more than 30 universities, with fellowships at several leading philosophy departments. Next year, ARI plans to enter the Washington, D.C., think tank world with a center devoted to the advocacy of individual freedom and capitalism.     Share on Facebook

• A bike tour of San Francisco’s 25 architectural gems stirs conflict about our past 
Carol Lloyd, SFGate.com (San Francisco) The Fountainhead  The history of modern architecture — a notoriously macho profession — is fairly riven with bitter feuds between the public and the professionals. In "The Fountainhead," Ayn Rand's Howard Roark embodied a cartoon version of the arrogant architect — blowing up a much needed housing development instead of allowing his design to be changed.     Share on Facebook

• • • Anthem — Ayn Rand 
Daily Times (Pakistan) Anthem  Excerpt from Anthem.Ayn Rand (1905 –1982) was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher. This piece is an excerpt from Anthem, a dystopian novella published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of what Rand saw as the evils of irrationality, collectivism and the weakness of the socialistic concept of equality.     Share on Facebook

• • An ethical Englishman in New York 
Peter Knight, Ethical Corporation Atlas Shrugged  The current debate about corporate responsibility seems no different than that explored in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, which I have very belated started to read. Written in the late 1950s, this novel expounds her philosophy of Objectivism. It is quoted by many successful CEOs as their bible and, in part, explores the debate between collective and individual responsibility. It has over 1000 pages of very small type. I will be at it for a while.     Share on Facebook

• The fight over oil and money 
Alexandra the Great, The Salinas Californian The desire to make more and more money is definitely the bottom line of those who trade on Wall Street. But I'll save my crackpot Marxist rant for another day. (I'll spare you my thoughts, too, on Ayn Rand.)     Share on Facebook

• O.J. Lieberspan 
Alan Bisbort, Valley Advocate (CT) The most telling part of [Alan Greenspan's] memoirs is his devotion to Ayn Rand. He met Rand at age 25, when his wife was a member of "the Collective," a group of Ayn acolytes. (Greenspan is now married to Ayn-drea Mitchell, one of Bush's most reliable propagandists on network TV). Rand apparently had a number of lapdogs like Greenspan, sycophantic whelps who were little more than errand boys.     Share on Facebook