Archive: Celebrity Rand Fans

According to a new Bloomberg interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the young Steve Jobs may have been inspired by Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, among other books, in his ambitions with Apple. Excerpts: (at around 5:30) INTERVIEWER: Steve, ... »More

From a new article in The Independent about a Silicon Valley startup being backed by the founders of PayPal: Polish-born Nosek, 36, worked on supercomputers at the University of Illinois in the early 1990s, then entered ... »More

In his profile, Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman lists Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as two of his favorite books -- and his list is fairly selective, with only six unique books ... »More

A new book review at the Wall Street Journal begins with this story about Ayn Rand and Cecil B. DeMille: On a cool Southern California morning in September 1926, an impoverished, 21-year-old Russian with sketchy English ... »More

A new documentary movie about the rock band Rush -- whose 1976 concept album 2112 featured a title track based loosely on Ayn Rand's novelette "Anthem" -- will be coming to theaters on June 10, ... »More

Ed Snider, perhaps best known as owner of the Philadelphia Flyers, is starting a new cable network called RightNetwork, which will compete with Fox News while focusing on entertainment rather than news. Snider has long been ... »More

From an interesting new interview with John Stossel about his new show on Fox News: Stossel. How did you come up with that name? They just sprung it on me. Tell me a little bit about what the ... »More

Celebrity Ayn Rand fan and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has a great article in today's Wall Street Journal with his recommendations for free market based health care reform (though I take exception to his ... »More

A mostly favorable and long (6 pages) profile of Objectivist and former BB&T CEO (current Chairman) John Allison from Sunday's New York Times:  Over much of the last four decades, John A. Allison IV built BB&T from a local bank ... »More

We've noted before that British politician Daniel Hannan is not only an articulate defender of freedom, but also an Ayn Rand fan. Recently the Independence Institute brought him to the U.S., where he gave the ... »More