Biography EssayAyn Rand's novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) develop her philosophy of objectivism, which challenged conventional values by emphasizing laissez-faire capitalism, ...
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Ayn Rand (1905-1982)began to form her philosophy of rational self interest, which she called "objectivism," at an early age. This view became the basis for her immensely popular writings, which includ...
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Ayn Rand has been both revered and disparaged as the author of controversial novels, essays, and other works that espouse her philosophy of Objectivism. A Russian-born American citizen, Rand celebrate...
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Ayn Rand's novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) manifest a development of her own philosophy of Objectivism, which challenged conventional values by emphasizing laissez-faire capi...
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Ayn Rand, one of the few systematic philosophers who have used imaginative literature to develop their ideas, was a novelist and the founder of the Objectivist school of philosophy. She was an advocat...
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Critical Essay by Harold Strauss
["We the Living"] is slavishly warped to the dictates of propaganda. Actually Miss Rand can command a good deal of Ayn Rand 1905–1982 Photograph ...
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Critical Essay by Ben Belitt
[Ayn Rand] has written a novel ["We the Living"] to make it finally plain that the Soviet state, as far as she has been able to discover, is not only a farc...
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Critical Essay by William Plomer
One often wishes that writers would yield a little more to their satirical inclinations, and that goes for Miss Ayn Rand. From internal evidence one would guess her t...
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Ayn Rand's View on Communism
Regarding the autobiographical nature of Kira, the main character in We the Living, Ayn Rand said "The specific events of Kira's life were not mine; her ideas, her convi...
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Teaching We the Living
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We the Living Lesson Plans contain 116 pages of teaching material, including:
An hideously horribly overly long edition of Thursday Styles with Tom Scocca, a weekly recording of an IM conversation with Tom Scocca, the New York Observer's Off the Record columnist. Brought to ...
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PARIS, Dec 1 (Reuters) - After nearly six years of captivity
in the depths of the jungle, Ingrid Betancourt and her fellow
rebel hostages "live like the dead", the Colombian-French
politician said...
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President Bush said Saturday that Osama bin Laden's first video appearance in three years is a reminder of "the dangerous world in which we live.""It's important that we show resolve and determinat...
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The movie theater darkened and one man clapped. Then another couple of men stood up, and, quickly, the entire capacity theater at Loews Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side turned and stood to see...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
A SHOCKING CRIME (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published May 13)
On a summer evening ...
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Washington (dpa) - An al-Qaeda controlled group, Islamic State in
Iraq, has claimed credit for Thursday's penetrating blast at the
Iraqi Parliament that killed at least seve...
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Washington (dpa) - The United States pressed China on Saturday to
revalue its currency and said the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
must take a stronger role in exchange-r...
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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Critical Essay by Harold Strauss
Ayn Rand's Views on Communism
Thursday Styles With Tom Scocca: The Way We Live Now
