Libertarian presidential candidate and former Republican U.S. Representative, Bob Barr, spoke on Sunday at The Atlas Society's Summer Seminar 2008 in Portland, Oregon. The Oregonian reported on Barr's talk: Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia, ... »More

We've noted before that Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller fame) is a fan of Ayn Rand's ideas. Now Ed Hudgins confirms that the same is true of Teller: [The Atlas Society] had a display ... »More

In the wake of Vadim Perelman's departure from the Atlas Shrugged movie project, Angelina Jolie's enthusiasm for starring in the movie version of Ayn Rand's novel is still going strong. From an interview with MTV: Regarding the ... »More

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales -- a long-time admirer of Ayn Rand's writings -- was profiled in this month's issue of The Economist. Here's a choice quote from mid-way through the introduction: The philosophy that appealed ... »More

New York Times writer Rachel Donadio explores the "It's not you, it's your books" problem in romantic love -- a problem very familiar to many admirers of Ayn Rand's novels. From her perspective, though, it's the ... »More

Regular readers of the Ayn Rand Meta-Blog may remember a singer named John Paul Roney, about whom I've blogged before. Roney and his sister, Sarah Saturday, are huge fans of Atlas Shrugged. (In fact, we ... »More

From Atlasphere member Stuart Hayashi: Lately the famous humorous magician Penn Jillette, from "Penn & Teller," has been lauding Ayn Rand quite a bit. He positively alluded to Atlas Shrugged on his Showtime series Bullshit!, for ... »More

For the latest scoop on the Atlas Shrugged movie, see Susan Paris's interview with Aglialoro in our new column "John Aglialoro on the Atlas Shrugged Movie." Tasty excerpt: SP: When will filming begin? Aglialoro: Fourth quarter of 2008 ... »More

From Atlasphere member Greg Feirman: I've been reading Clarence Thomas's autobiograpy and he seems to be a big Rand fan. I read Sowell's Atlasphere review of the book. But Thomas also explicitly references Rand in his book: ... »More

Reason Magazine has an excellent new article about Rep. John Campbell, who -- as we noted when he replaced Rand fan Christopher Cox who was picked to head the SEC -- is himself an admirer ... »More