Are most modern problems caused by selfishness or a lack of it? Ayn Rand, a Russian American philosopher and writer, would say it's the latter — that selfishness is not a vice but a virtue — and that ...
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Obama's attacking Ayn Rand's "Selfishness is a virtue" as a way to defend taxing more of higher earner's income contradicts the most definitive line in Atlas Shrugged: "An honest man is one who knows ...
Is liking Ayn Rand a personality defect? Before she was the godmother of American libertarianism, Rand was a writer known for insisting on the virtue and beauty of self-interest. To her admirers, her ...
Publishers Weekly: The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis
- The primary role of government is promoting laissez-faire capitalism In The Virtue of Selfishness, Rand wrote Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is ...
The Ayn Rand Institute is a nonprofit think tank in Irvine, California, that promotes Objectivism, a philosophical system developed by author Ayn Rand. Its stated goal is to "spearhead a cultural ...
The New Yorker: The Surprising Sweetness of the Ayn Rand Fangirl Novel
EDITOR: Paul Ryan credits Ayn Rand as his most influential guide in politics. Forget the Hollywood version of "The Fountainhead" with handsome Gary Cooper and Raymond Massey. Rand also wrote ...
This work is both a highly effective example of graphic nonfiction and a strong critique of the connection between Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism and the 2008 financial collapse. Cunningham ...