major programs is the annual
Ayn Rand Atlas Award for the Best Israeli
With the addition of A Companion to
Ayn Rand to the slowly growing corpus of scholarship on Objectivism, (8) we can perhaps at last get beyond both glib, ill-informed dismissals of Rand's work and the polemical tone of some of her writing.
I was not certain whether
Ayn Rand disturbed his mind or whether he was attracted to her because he was disturbed to start with.
In Atlas Shrugged,
Ayn Rand achieved a consistency of vision and depth of execution unparalleled in the freedom movement.
(18) In Objectivism: The Philosophy of
Ayn Rand (New York: Dutton, 1991) pp.
But there's no getting around it" taken as a whole, there is a dismaying discrepancy between the
Ayn Rand of real life and
Ayn Rand as she presented herself to the world.
It was the summer after my senior year in high school when the older sister of a friend suggested I read "The Fountainhead" by
Ayn Rand. I did.
Probably
Ayn Rand was in the air because Paul Ryan offered so publicly that he was a follower," Lynn adds.
Yaron Brook is the executive director of the
Ayn Rand Institute, a columnist for Forbes.com, and co-author of the new book How
Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government (Palgrave Macmillan).
"
Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up," he said.
1) and for bringing up the ideas of
Ayn Rand. Her credo that individual selfishness is a virtue and self-sacrifice is a vice is exactly the opposite of what most Christian churches teach.