nytimes.com - 11/1/2009
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Anne C. Heller’s biography conveys the conviction and odd charisma of Ayn Rand, whose individualist message is still resonant for American conservatives.
slate.com - 11/2/2009
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slate.com —
Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries.
She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers,...
who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed ...
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Two biographies of Ayn Rand.
mediaite.com - 10/28/2009
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mediaite.com —
Mark Sanford wrote an essay on Ayn Rand
for Newsweek this week. Yes, that Mark Sanford. Where...
to begin? With how crazy it is that Sanford, Governor of South Carolina, is writing an essay about how useless government is to accomplish anything? Or ...
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Mark Sanford on Ayn Rand in Newsweek: A Fountainhead of ...
newsweek.com - 10/29/2009
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newsweek.com —
In my experience, people who've read Ayn Rand's
books either love them or hate them. I'm one...
of the few who fall somewhere in between. When I first read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in the 1980s, I was blown away. Those books portray the power ...
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Mark Sanford on Ayn Rand | Newsweek Books
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Genius by Way of Affiliation: Kirsch on Rand
The Wooden Spoon —
At The New York Times this week, Adam Kirsch reviews the new biography, Ayn Rand and the World She Made. He writes, 'Rand’s particular intellectual contribution, the thing that makes her so popular and so American, is the way she managed to mass market elitism — to convince so many people, especially young people, that they could be geniuses without being in any concrete way distinguished. Or, rather, that they could distinguish themselves by the ardor of their commitment to Rand’s teaching. The very form of her novels makes the same point: ...
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers
Omnivoracious —
... by Anne C. Heller: "Yet while Rand took to wearing a dollar-sign pin to advertise her love
of capitalism, Heller makes clear that the author had no real affection
for dollars themselves. Giving up her royalties to preserve her vision
is something that no genuine capitalist, and few popular novelists,
would have done. It is the act of an intellectual, of someone who
believes that ideas matter more than lucre. In fact, as Heller shows,
Rand had no more reverence for the actual businessmen she met than most
intellectuals do. The problem was that, according to her ...
OMNIVORE: The art of the fake headline
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... the Middle Ages to the Present by Pieter Spierenburg. Every fall, the North American landscape transforms from a rolling verdure to a collage of vibrant yellows, oranges and reds; the autumn foliage in Europe , however, is rather bland, composed of mostly yellow leaves — why? China’s too lenient — we need a no-child policy : With the swarm of human beings expected to hit nine billion by 2050, it’s time we discussed tough remedies. More and more and more and more and more and more and more on Ayn Rand, ...
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