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One of my American Government students is reading Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, which includes a series of essays by Ayn Rand and others, and will shortly be reporting to the class about the book.
In preparation for my student's presentation, I've been watching the film Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, which included a portion of the video clip below (1979):
Start paying keen attention around time marker 3:37. Around time marker 4:15, Ayn Rand says, "Every dictatorship is based on altruism," i.e., selflessness and self-sacrifice.
Later in the video, Ayn Rand and Phil Donahue discuss the oil companies and monopolies.
Find the rest of this five-part interview in the sidebar at YouTube.
- Again With This Degenerate
Back in 1961 Gore Vidal typed a review of Ayn Rand's For the New Intellectual. The review was published in Esquire Magazine, which has made it available online. Vidal's main complaint against Rand (and this guy is chock-full of complaints) is...
- 'from Mohammed To Ayn Rand'
My interview with Front Page Magazine, on ProPiganda: Drawing the Line Against Jihad, The Infidel & Pigman. An Excerpt: From Mohammed to Ayn Rand DS: As an ex-Muslim creating a graphic novel about an ex-Muslim who creates an anti-Jihad superhero is...
- With 'atlas Shrugged,' Hollywood May Have Its First Anti-bailout Movie
Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist. After decades in development hell, Ayn Rand's capitalism-minded "Atlas Shrugged" is taking new steps toward the big screen -- with one of the film world's most prominent money men potentially...
- Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged Climbs Up Charts During Recession
Counter-intuitive? No, I don't think so. People see what their governments are doing, and they want no part of it. This is the beginning of the Great Rearmament of the Western Human. It's time to depose our bloated, spoiled, childish governments,...
- Obama: The Weatherman Candidate
The video below explains the connections between Senator Obama and the most radical of the New Left: In the 28 August 1972 issue of The Ayn Rand Letter, Miss Rand wrote: There is one significant factor in the grotesque spectacle of the Democratic National...
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Ayn Rand On Altruism
One of my American Government students is reading Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, which includes a series of essays by Ayn Rand and others, and will shortly be reporting to the class about the book.
In preparation for my student's presentation, I've been watching the film Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, which included a portion of the video clip below (1979):
Start paying keen attention around time marker 3:37. Around time marker 4:15, Ayn Rand says, "Every dictatorship is based on altruism," i.e., selflessness and self-sacrifice.
Later in the video, Ayn Rand and Phil Donahue discuss the oil companies and monopolies.
Find the rest of this five-part interview in the sidebar at YouTube.
- Again With This Degenerate
Back in 1961 Gore Vidal typed a review of Ayn Rand's For the New Intellectual. The review was published in Esquire Magazine, which has made it available online. Vidal's main complaint against Rand (and this guy is chock-full of complaints) is...
- 'from Mohammed To Ayn Rand'
My interview with Front Page Magazine, on ProPiganda: Drawing the Line Against Jihad, The Infidel & Pigman. An Excerpt: From Mohammed to Ayn Rand DS: As an ex-Muslim creating a graphic novel about an ex-Muslim who creates an anti-Jihad superhero is...
- With 'atlas Shrugged,' Hollywood May Have Its First Anti-bailout Movie
Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist. After decades in development hell, Ayn Rand's capitalism-minded "Atlas Shrugged" is taking new steps toward the big screen -- with one of the film world's most prominent money men potentially...
- Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged Climbs Up Charts During Recession
Counter-intuitive? No, I don't think so. People see what their governments are doing, and they want no part of it. This is the beginning of the Great Rearmament of the Western Human. It's time to depose our bloated, spoiled, childish governments,...
- Obama: The Weatherman Candidate
The video below explains the connections between Senator Obama and the most radical of the New Left: In the 28 August 1972 issue of The Ayn Rand Letter, Miss Rand wrote: There is one significant factor in the grotesque spectacle of the Democratic National...