24 Articles tagged with: Ayn Rand's Life

• The Legacy of Nathaniel Branden

  The idea for a symposium on the life and thought of Nathaniel Branden came in 2012, two years before Branden’s death. Branden himself knew about and approved of the symposium but never saw it completed before he passed away.

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• Five Dumbest Comments About Ayn Rand the "Draw My Life" Video

  Our new Atlas Society “Draw My Life” video, this one on Ayn Rand, has gone viral with half a million views on Facebook and climbing. Written, illustrated and narrated (in Russian accent no less) by Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman, it has a… Read Article

• Eight Facts About Ayn Rand’s Father

  The term “father figure” expresses the influence and example that a pater familias has on most of us. Ayn Rand’s father was born Zelman Wolf Zakharovich Rosenbaum in Czarist Russia. He was known as Zinovy or Fronz. What facts do we know abo… Read Article

• Eight Facts About Ayn Rand’s Mother

  For better or worse—and usually for the better—mothers are the individuals who have the greatest influence over our early lives. Anna Rosenbaum had a mixed influence on her famous daughter Ayn Rand. Ayn was born Alissa Rosenbaum in St. Petersb… Read Article

• On Nabokov’s Birthday, Lessons in Liberty

  April 22 marks the birthday of Vladimir Nabokov. Born in 1899, this writer had similarities to as well as differences from fellow Russian Ayn Rand. But Rand fans will find that his insights on individualism and liberty complemented hers.

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• Opportunity Lost?

  Sidebar article to: "Why Was Ayn Rand?" Fall 2009 issue -- I am an advocate of Objectivism, but I never met Ayn Rand. I regret that, as by all accounts she was fascinating and incisive. But sometimes I think it is just as well.

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• Myth: Ayn Rand was Simply Pro-Wealthy and Pro-Business

  Ayn Rand supported a laissez-faire capitalist economic system and defended the morality of making a profit through private business. The heroes of her novels include business owners and business executives. Her villains include government burea… Read Article

• Myth: Ayn Rand Wasn't a Serious Philosopher

  On August 2nd, 2009, The New York Times profiled BB&T’s John Allison , who put Ayn Rand’s principles to work at that bank when he was CEO. In that article, the influential blogging philosophy professor Brian Leiter was brought on as an a… Read Article

• Myth: Ayn Rand was for Dog-Eat-Dog Selfishness

  Many people still think Ayn Rand advocated a take-what-you-want-and-damn-everyone-else kind of selfishness.  

  For example, Chicago Tribune movie critic Michael Phillips shared this impression on April 14, 2011 while reviewing Atlas … Read Article

• Three Myths about Ayn Rand

  Fall 2009 -- Those who have for some time followed the decades-long course of Ayn Rand’s growing cultural influence may recall a time when Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism , was regularly misrepresented in the press and even distorted in criti… Read Article

• Interview with Anne Conover Heller

  William Thomas interviews Anne Conover Heller on the writing of her acclaimed biography Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Heller is a former executive editor at Condé Nast Publications and the former fiction editor for Esquire … Read Article

• Goddess, Undeified

  BOOK REVIEW: Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) 369 pages. $27.95

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• Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand

  Never religious, Ayn Rand was as potently spiritual as any writer; she knew how to speak in a thoroughly earthly way to those aspirations that have traditionally been religion's business. And she herself found these aspirations realized in, amo… Read Article

• Who Was Ayn Rand?

  BOOK REVIEW: Anne Heller. Ayn Rand and the World She Made. New York, 2009: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 567 pp. $35

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• Mises and Rand

  Question: Ayn Rand seems to have been influenced by Ludwig von Mises. What was her view of him?

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• Ayn Rand and film

  Early in her career, Ayn Rand worked in Hollywood as a screen writer. Her first film scenarios were never produced, and some have been lost. However, she later wrote several successful screenplays, and several of her own works were (or will be) pr… Read Article

• Autobiography of an Idea

  BOOK REVIEW:  Journals of Ayn Rand. Edited by David Harriman. (New York: Dutton, 1997. 727 pp. $39.95.)

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• Rand and Anna Karenina

  Question: I read on the Internet somewhere that Ayn Rand' s least favorite novel was Anna Karenina...First of all, is that true? If so, what about her philosophy made her dislike it so? I really liked it, as a matter of fact!

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• Scholarship and Ayn Rand's Writing

  Question: What is the academic standard for "scholarly" and do Ayn Rand's writings meet this standard? If they do, what standards are those who claim Ayn Rand's philosophical writings are not scholarly using?

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• Thomas Paine's Influence on Ayn Rand

  Question: I noticed many similarities between Thomas Paine's religious views in The Age of Reason and Ayn Rand's views. In Ayn Rand's works, I see very little reference made to Paine.

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