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Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Family Values

I am neither liberal nor a conservative. There are things about the liberal platform that I find abhorrent. There are things about the conservative agenda that make me shudder. A friend of mine, who happens...

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who is john galt and why you should fear him

Who is John Galt? Ayn Rand created this character, and the surrounding objectivist viewpoint, in the book "Atlas Shrugged". What would an objectivist society look like?

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A Review Of "Anthem" by Ayn Rand

One of Ayn Rand’s earliest masterpieces is the short novella “Anthem.” It was published in 1938 and is set in the dystopian future, although the date is not specified. The general premise is that man...

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Objectivism

Objectivism is the philosophy created by famed writer and political thinker Ayn Rand in the mid twentieth century. The principles of Objectivism are outlined in Rand’s work, specifically the novels...

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My Favorite Books

The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged written by Ayn Rand are my favorite books. These books talk about the story of existence of a man who stood against all the odds. He lived his life on his own terms and...

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Who is John Galt?

Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905, the eldest of three daughters of Zinovy and Borisovna Rosenbaum. During the Russian Revolution of 1917 her life was changed by the coming of the Bolshevik...

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Ayn Rand Was Right!

Reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which was published in 1957, is like reading tomorrow's newspaper. Her warnings about what big government leads to are even more timely now than when this work was first published. Her warnings were born out her own experience with collectivism and statism in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution.

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Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism, Recommended Reading

Suggested Reading sequence of works to better learn the Philosophy This reading list is intended as a suggested sequence of books and essays for those who are interested in Ayn Rand's ideas and want to read...

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