Ayn Rand
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Letters: The ideological difference is not the intervention, which is functionally indispensable, but the underlying values
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A self-confessed ‘complete outsider in the City’, Joris Luyendijk reveals the best guides he’s found to this complex, sometimes terrifying world
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This government will be judged on three issues: Europe, the union of the UK and public spending. The trick is not to bring your preconceptions with you
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Atlas Shrugged author’s work, which she abandoned and adapted for the stage, will be released next year
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This mammoth production of the neocon classic shifts the focus to its enthralling and predatory femme fatale, writes Andrew Todd
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Alan Skinner: Trumpeted as a democratic broadening of the publishing field, 'authorpreneurialism' actually narrows the world of reading and writing
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Slavoj Žižek: Mandela must have died a bitter man. To honour his legacy we should focus on the unfulfilled promises his leadership gave rise to
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One celebrated the virtues of selfishness in a right-wingers' set text. The other's a billionaire mining magnate who once wrote a terrible poem. Or is it the other way round? Take our quiz
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Rush's 20-minute concept suite about Ayn Rand is one of rock's most unlikely triumphs – even if the rest of the album is rubbish, writes Michael Hann
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Vincent Miller: As American Catholics, we believe that Catholic orthodoxy cannot be reconciled with libertarianism
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Nicholas Lezard on the evil roots of the American right
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How Paul Ryan enslaves Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Bernard HarcourtBernard Harcourt: The Republican VP nominee claims Hayek as hero. Did he miss the libertarian economist's advocacy of universal healthcare?
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Shut out from the official party celebration down the road, Paul's supporters look toward a future without their retiring leader
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Confessions of a recovering Objectivist
Victoria BekiempisVictoria Bekiempis: For a time, I was a devotee of Ayn Rand's ideas. Now I see what a pernicious philosophy rational egoism is – and how dumb!
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How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx
George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot: Her psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats
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Stuart Dredge: What's new on the app stores on Tuesday 13 September 2011
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A film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged, a BBC documentary and the support of rightwing economists have put the philosopher-novelist back in the news
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The Tea Party and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Megan GibsonMegan Gibson: Ayn Rand is a cult figure for Tea Party types, but if a bad movie gets them reading, they may be surprised by her ideas
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When it mattered, Ayn Rand accepted government benefits - under a different name!
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Nick Newcomen travels 12,000 miles with GPS tracking 'pen' to emblazon message 'Read Ayn Rand' across the US
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Peter Robins: What else is going on in bookspace?
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The Ayn Rand revival
Jennifer AbelJennifer Abel: With the US government bailing out rich idiots, it's no wonder the sex-addled critic of socialism is more popular than ever
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Mary Midgley: How to believe: Ayn Rand's libertarianism represents the last infirmity of Hobbes's noble idea
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Ayn Rand's libertarian rant is unpleasant, daft and deeply flawed. I hated it - but I couldn't put it down
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War and Peace … and then what?