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Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans radical enough for capitalism? Ayn Rand, the Russian-born novelist and philosopher, died in 1982.

"It was the most fascinating thing I'd ever read," he announced to the Cato Institute audience.

With two new biographies being covered in all the major newspapers, The Daily Show , and elsewhere, Ayn Rand is in the news .

Whenever Ayn Rand met someone new-an acolyte who'd traveled cross-country to study at her feet, an editor hoping to publish her next novel-she would open the conversation with a line that seems destined to go down as one of history's all-time classic icebreakers: 'Tell me your premises.' Once you'd managed to mumble something halfhearted about ...

A piece in Foreign Policy says that Ayn Rand's now big in India : Not only do Indians perform more Google searches for Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but Penguin Books India has sold an impressive number of copies -- as many as 50,000 of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead each since 2005, a number ...

The Superintendent's Taskforce on Building Use presented their unanimous recommendation on the usage of the Washington Street school to the Board of Education last night.

A few months ago, Ayn Rand fans made a big stink about "going Galt" - threatening to bring down the federal government by taking their productive genius and going home .

Sources from the New York Times to the United Kingdom's Guardian agree that 2009 is the Year of Ayn Rand.

Last week, I attended the First Draft of History forum, hosted by the Atlantic and the Aspen Institute.

Before we talk about America's self-destructive love affair with capitalism, we need to define it.

My good friends Dan and Jennie Rothschild read and blog Atlas Shrugged. Jennie had never read any Rand.

Jonathan Chait, in a somewhat interesting New Republic review of two forthcoming biographies of Ayn Rand, gets too concrete-bound in his attempts to debunk or call into serious question Randian moral judgments about government stealing from the productive.

TOPICS You know just how crazy Ann Coulter's worldview is getting when Bill O'Reilly serves as an honest-to-God voice of sanity in dealing with her proposals for how to reform health care, as she laid them out on The O'Reilly Factor on Thursday.

There are considerable differences between Barbara's and Nathan's books. For one thing, Barbara focused on a legitimate topic: a biography of Ayn Rand, for all her follies an author of some stature.

You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that it loses itself early and does not find itself any more.

Stephan Kinsella has previously written regarding Ayn Rand, Objectivists, and intellectual property: First, note the extreme, almost Galambos-like importance [Objectivists] attach to intellectual property.

Like many libertarians, I initially assumed intellectual property was a legitimate type of property right.

One of the strangest - but perhaps, predictable - trends that has accompanied the recession is a resurgence of interest in the writings of Ayn Rand and especially, the book Atlas Shrugged.

That's the new Ayn Rand biography , written by Anne C. Heller . It is a truly excellent, first-rate biography, at least up through my current p.111. I know Ayn Rand is an emotional topic for many of you, pro, con, or somewhere in between.

Will Wilkinson asks a very useful question : Here is a good debate proposition: It ought to be less embarrassing to have been influenced by Ayn Rand than by Karl Marx.