Blaming Ayn Rand for the 2010 Financial Crisis Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 5/26, 8:56am
The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis by Darryl Cunningham (Abrams, 2015) is a closely written and tightly integrated misinterpretation of Ayn Rand’s life, her works, her philosophy of Objectivism, and the causes of the market collapses of 2007-2010.
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Atlas Shrugged: quirky, postmodern Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 10/20, 3:59am
"Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, is a classic American novel about individualism, the power of society, and the determination of self-selected leaders. Complex and difficult in places, it is in many ways the first postmodern novel." -- The Leader's Bookshelf, edited by Admirial James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) and R. Manning ...(Read more...)
Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 3/05, 9:51am
This first person narrative about combat in Afghanistan has three oblique referenences to Atlas Shrugged. Just as the author does not stop to explain the technical terms of the infantry - there's a glossary in back - he does not explain Atlas Shrugged or Ayn Rand, just as he assumes that the reader knows Harry Potter ...(Read more...)
There are two articles in The Academy of Management Review, a prominent academic business-management journal, that address Rand's ethics. The first champions Rand. The second, a response to the first, is critical. The main topic is integrity.
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"When I was seventeen and spending the summer working and touring in Israel, I bought a copy of Atlas Shrugged and hid it in my luggage on my return, successfully slipping it through Customs like a copy of Playboy or Tropic of Cancer. The South African prism had shifted the political spectrum so far to the dictatorial ...(Read more...)
Philip Kerr's Novel Field Grey Posted by Machan on 9/16, 11:00am
This novel, one of Kerr's several Bernie Gunther pre-WW II spy stories, mentions Ayn Rand twice, both times in a demeaning fashion, unfortunately.(Read more...)
Roadside billboards Posted by Jay Abbott on 6/30, 6:16pm
Just a note. There are now three large, prominently displayed "Who is John Galt?" billboards located on I-95N and I-95S between Savannah and the Florida border. All are identical to the first one I posted about last year.(Read more...)
When reading the New Yorker of Nov. 9, 2009 in my doctor's office I came across this article. As one would expect, it is scornful and denigrating but I present it here for completness.
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