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Avatar: The Atlas Shrugged of the Left

December 29, 2009 - Posted by Joshua Zader
A new article by Nick Rizzuto at TownHall.com begins: For 52 years now, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged has stood alone as the shining example of political allegory. Rand's novel has long been considered to be essential ... »More

Reason TV interviews Atlasphere founder Joshua Zader about Ayn Rand’s legacy

November 9, 2009 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Reason TV just published a video interview with me titled "Dating in the Atlasphere." In the interview, I discuss how the Atlasphere was founded, why Ayn Rand's legacy is so important, and my own ideas ... »More

Washington Times BOOK REVIEW: Why Ayn Rand Is Hot Again

October 6, 2009 - Posted by Greg Feirman
Review of Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand And The American Right by Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty in The Washington Times: Why is Rand, dead since 1982, so hot again today?  Ironically, big ... »More

The Whole Foods alternative to ObamaCare

August 12, 2009 - Posted by Joshua Zader
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

Private Proprietary Cities Gathering Momentum

May 8, 2008 - Posted by Johann Gevers
A brand-new experimental "City of the Future" is being built from the ground up in Abu Dhabi, financed primarily—over 80%—by private investors: "We want it to be profitable, not a sunk cost," says Khaled Awad, who ... »More

Campus socialists: Afraid of a little competition?

April 16, 2008 - Posted by Joshua Zader
New Individualist editor Robert Bidinotto has one of the best responses I've seen to the brouhaha about BB&T's donations to college campuses. He wrote to The New York Times: I have never heard any howling ... »More

Do You Really Deserve Your Paycheck?

March 17, 2008 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Chris Colin has published a column at the San Francisco Chronicle called "No Offense, but You Don't Deserve Your Salary." Kudos to him for interviewing Yaron Brook on the subject -- making his article ... »More

Bloomberg News: “John Galt Plan Might Save U.S. Financial System”

March 11, 2008 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Thanks to Johann Gevers for forwarding this fantastic citing of Ayn Rand in the media: John Galt Plan Might Save U.S. Financial System Commentary by Caroline Baum March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Let's face it: The Federal Reserve must ... »More

Ed Cline: Remember William F. Buckley as He Was

March 5, 2008 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Erika Holzer points us to a very insightful article by Ed Cline, titled "The Philosophic Postmortem of William F. Buckley, Jr.": William F. Buckley, Jr. died in Connecticut on February 27. Most Western newspapers and news ... »More

TIA Editor Robert Tracinski Endorses Rudy Giuliani

January 4, 2008 - Posted by Joshua Zader
The 2008 elections are coming into full swing, and prominent Objectivists are beginning to weigh in with their perspectives. The Intellectual Activist Editor Robert Tracinski has formally endorsed Rudy Giuliani. I could not ... »More
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