Interesting to see AbeBooks.com featuring Atlas Shrugged along with revered classics like Gone with the Wind and The Count of Monte Cristo. If you go on their site, you'll find that a first edition of Atlas in fine condition with Rand's inscription is priced at $17,500.00. The original price? $6.95. The inscr...(Read more...)
A WBUR Boston radio interview with Jennifer Burns, professor of history at University of Virginia, and author of the upcoming “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.” Here is a direct link in case it the main one is altered.(Read more...)
"Ayn Rand" is one of the best performing searches on the website I work on. So, we've added an Ayn Rand landing page. http://www.shop.com/ayn+rand-a.shtml(Read more...)
"Sometimes we do these trilogy episodes, and this one has powerful women through history and we do a parody of The Fountainhead, the Ayn Rand book," said [producer Al] Jean. "Maggie Simpson is in a preschool where she's trying to build these beautiful block buildings and the preschool teacher keeps knocking them down ...(Read more...)
Michelle Malkin may have been the person responsible for the recent spate of "Going Galt" columns and blogs. Evidently, in addition to this column, she spoke at widely attended Conservative conference a week or so ago and gave a speech along on this theme. (Read more...)
Two "Atlas Shrugging" columns in the same day. The theme seems to have struck a popular cord. The April 15th "Tea Parties" around the country may be impressive.(Read more...)