Ayn Rand

• Ayn Rand as public intellectual: notes from the margin.

Most of today's "intellectuals"--the statist collectivists, the worshippers of "the masses," the servants of "the people"--are savagely antagonistic t...

• Studies in the Humanities
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 2, December 2008

• Ayn Rand's Adult-Onset Adolescence

THE MOVIE "Atlas Shrugged," adapted from Ayn Rand's 1957 novel by the same name, is a triumph of cinematic irony. A work that lectures us endlessly on the moral superiority of heroic achievement is itself a model of mediocrity. In this, the film perfectly reflects both the novel and the mind behind it. Rand is something of a cultural phenomenon - the author of potboilers who became an ethical and political philosopher, a libertarian heroine. But Rand's distinctive mix of expressive egotism, free love and free-market metallurgy does not hold up very well on the screen. The emotional center of the movie is the success of high-speed rail - oddly similar to a proposal in Barack Obama's last State of the Union address. All of the characters are ideological puppets. Visionary, comely capitali...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• April 25, 2011

• ; Ayn Rand's Novel Finally Hits the Big Screen

It has taken businessman John Aglialoro nearly 20 years to realize his ambition of making a movie out of "Atlas Shrugged," the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand that has sold more than 7 million copies and has as passionate a following among many political conservatives and libertarians as "Twilight" has among teens. But the version of the book coming to theaters today is decidedly independent, low-cost and even makeshift. Shot for a modest $10 million by first-time director Paul Johansson (an actor who may be best known for his recurring role on "One Tree Hill") with a cast of little-known actors, "Atlas Shrugged: Part I," the first in an expected trilogy, will play on about 300 screens in 80 markets including the Regal Quaker Crossing in Orchard Park. It's being marketed with the help ...

• Buffalo News
• April 15, 2011

• Atlas Shrugged: the movie: scenes from the 38-year struggle to film Ayn Rand's famous novel.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HANK REARDEN, metal magnate, faces a bureaucrat from the State Science Institute across his desk of burnished steel. The bure...

• Reason
• Vol. 43 Nbr. 1, May 2011

• The Ayn Rand Plan

The Paul Ryan budget proposal has landed with the stink and thump of a dead albatross around the necks of every Republican in the country who voted for it. Tea-buggers, a small radical white wing of the GOP, roar back at anyone who tries to weasel around it, and are circle-shooting at any presidential candidate who doesn't endorse Ryan's Plan. In case you are interested, here's a link that tells you exactly what's in store for your own district if by some mischance any incarnation of what many of us call the Ayn Rand budget is enacted: democrats.energycommerce.house.gov.

• Charleston Gazette
• June 17, 2011

• Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right By Jennifer Burns New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 369. $27.95 cloth. The t...

• Independent Review
• Vol. 15 Nbr. 4, March 2011

• Ayn Rand's 'Anthem' Becomes Graphic Novel

For the first time, a work by Ayn Rand has been adapted into comic-book form. "Anthem," the philosopher and novelist's 1938 novella, has been turned into a graphic novel. It is adapted by Charles Santino and drawn by Joe Staton.

• Charleston Gazette
• February 03, 2011

• Letters to the Editor: Spirit of Ayn Rand

Spirit of Ayn Rand I'm sick and tired of receiving piles of paper from solicitors each day to help in causes that are not mine. My husband and I are one of those HENRYs - High Earner, Not Rich Yet; pulling a wagon load of people who have made unwise choices and our government expects our help in bailing them out.

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• July 07, 2010

• The trouble with Ayn Rand: civilization teeters on the brink, warns David Bentley Hart; they've made a movie of Atlas Shrugged.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is one of the most indelibly memorable scenes, and certainly the best twist ending, to have come out of the cinema of the ...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Nothing to Shrug about: Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, originally published in 1957, is once again - and justly - becoming required reading for lovers of freedom, but it's not without its flaws.

Some of us remember our first reading of Atlas Shrugged like our first time behind the wheel of a car: intoxicating but inexplicably discomforting in ...

• The New American
• May 23, 2011