May 12 2016
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Today, Ayn Rand is perhaps best known as your virgin cousin’s favorite author to fawn over during Thanksgiving…
Mar 17 2016
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This news made my brain throw up a “404 File Not Found” page as a form of self-defense. It just couldn’t reconcile…
Sep 17 2015
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The whole point of a post-apocalyptic story is that someone survives. But when you have a calamity that wipes out…
Jun 9 2015
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There’s a meme going around that Tomorrowland underperformed at the box office because people weren’t ready for its…
Jan 15 2015
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In 1949, a 17-year-old girl named Connie Papurt wanted to buy a dress but needed $25. So she did what a lot of…
Dec 4 2014
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In 1936 Ayn Rand was no fan of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal programs. So it may come as a surprise to fans…
Sep 27 2014
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Over at The Toast, Mallory Ortberg adds to her ongoing alt-history series of movies, books and TV shows penned by…
Sep 12 2014
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Like The Hobbit, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand was too awesome to adapt as just one movie. And now at last, the movie…
May 31 2014
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How might Harry Potter have played out with Objectivist Supreme Ayn Rand at the keyboard?
Apr 9 2014
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Why did this take so long? There's an all-singing, all-dancing Ayn Rand off-Broadway production coming to New York…
Sep 29 2013
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Ayn Rand is a divisive figure in literature and political thought, and her life story helps us understand a great…
Mar 28 2013
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This is the best news today. The first two installments of the Atlas Shrugged trilogy are a source of endless campy…
Dec 12 2012
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Before the Internet, there was ARPANET — an experimental computer network brought to life in the 1960s by the U.S.…
Oct 12 2012
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The second installment of the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy is out today, just a few weeks before the presidential…
Oct 9 2012
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Over at Slate, evolutionary anthropologist Eric Michael Johnson has a fascinating essay about what science has to…
Jun 15 2012
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John Marr
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Although Fredric Brown's novels and short story collections have made only intermittent and often obscure…
Sep 14 2011
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That pretentious kid from high school/college/life who cited Ayn Rand quotes about the glory of self-interest and…
Apr 14 2011
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Charlie Jane Anders and Gordon Jackson
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Tax day is coming! No matter how you feel about the government and the things it does, you can't help but feel a…
Feb 12 2011
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The first trailer for Atlas Shrugged: Part I director Paul Johansson's big-screen adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Aug 12 2010
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Priya Ganapati - Wired
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One man drove 12,238 miles and across 30 states in the U.S. to scrawl a message that could only be viewed using…