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Reviews & Interviews
Please check out these most recent press comments, controversies, and interviews about Ayn Rand and the World She Made.
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FEBRUARY 2010
Ayn Rand: engineer of souls by Anthony Daniels
A critical account of the "Chernyshevsky of individualism."
Love thy ego as thyself. —Leonard Peikoff My copy of The Concept of Benevolence by T. A. Roberts, in the series New Studies in Practical Philosophy, was deaccessioned from a university library. The librarian took advantage of the fact that it had not been borrowed since October 17, 1977, only four years after its publication, to disembarrass his institution of yet another book so uselessly cluttering up the library shelves. It was carefully endorsed with ugly withdrawal stamps to reduce its resale value to an absolute minimum. Perhaps the librarian was a follower of Ayn Rand, the apostle of selfishness, who did not want youth corrupted by stray thoughts of altruism. Going from the loan history of the book (and from my casual observations of British youth), there was never much danger of this, but it is always better to be safe than sorry and therefore to treat selfishness as if it were an endangered species.
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 TV & Radio
- 3/1/10 - Doug McIntyre’s Red Eye Radio
- 1/27/10 - The Kathleen Radio Show
- 1/12/10 - “Rand and the Early Libertarian Movement,” Jeff Riggenbach, Ludwig von Mises Institute
- 12/17/09 - Josh Blackman Podcast
- 12/12/09 - Radio New Zealand
- 12/3/09 - Focus 580 - WILL-AM
- 12/1/09 - Globo Brazil
- 12/1/09 - Focus 580 Books
- 11/16/09 - Wall Street Journal, “Speakeasy,” “Why Glenn Beck Loves Ayn Rand”
- 11/15/09 - To the Best of Our Knowledge, Public Radio International
- 11/12/09 - Joe Donahue, WAMC
- 11/4/09 - Maggie Pascal Show
- 11/3/09 - Marty Moscowitz, Radio Times, WHYY
- 11/3/09 - Cato Institute Daily Podcast
- 10/30/09 - New York Times, Sam Tanenhaus interviews Anne Heller
- 10/28/09 -The Diane Rehms Show, WAMU
 Newspapers & Magazine
October 29, 2009
Ayn Rand’s Revenge
By ADAM KIRSCH
A critical account of the "Chernyshevsky of individualism."
A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand’s libertarian epic “Atlas Shrugged,” Galt, an inventor disgusted by creeping American collectivism, leads the country’s capitalists on a retributive strike. “We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it,” Galt lectures the “looters” and “moochers” who make up the populace. “We have no demands to present you, no terms to bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. We do not need you.”
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 Internet & Blogs
November 27, 2009
Capitalism's Wicked Witch
by Allen Barra
Ayn Rand is having another moment, and critic Allen Barra thinks we should once and for all recognize her as a fraud and an ideologue with creepy followers. Any objectivity about the founder of Objectivism is impossible. I’ll lay my cards on the table—Ayn Rand and her followers have given me the creeps since high school. Rand herself always looked to me like Lotte Lenya’s Rosa Krebb in From Russia with Love, and her disciples like extras from Village of the Damned.
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“There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days—the conviction that ideas matter. . . . And the radiance of that certainty, in the process of growing up, is the best aspect of youth.”--from the essay, "Inexplicable Personal Alchemy," in The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
Ayn Rand and Her Hollywood Days - The Wall Street Journal
Anne C. Heller on Brazilian's Globo TV Network
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