Louise Rubacky / TruthdigAug 9, 2019
A new book argues weakly for the influence of Ayn Rand on our culture—after all, the dominant classes in America were greedy and selfish from the get-go. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigMay 10, 2019
It may be too late to save the planet, warns Bill McKibben, but there's a reason that doesn't seem to keep up our tech barons up at night. Dig deeper ( 24 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigMar 7, 2018
The president and many members of his circle have been influenced by an author who didn’t believe there was a common good. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Tracy Bloom / TruthdigFeb 7, 2013
A look at the day's political happenings, including the death of the Virginia GOP's gerrymandering scheme and a Republican lawmaker in Idaho who wants to make Ayn Rand required reading in high school. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigJan 14, 2013
Glenn Beck and his delusions of grandeur were on full display last week, as the conservative media figure completed his wholehearted embrace of Ayn Rand's philosophy by announcing he would build a $2 billion utopian community somewhere in Texas. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 14, 2011
The people behind 2011's "Atlas Shrugged" movie adaptation (yes, they finally released the movie and no, nobody saw it) were "mortified" to discover that the DVD packaging for "Part 1" billed the film as a story of "courage and self-sacrifice." As every Randbot knows, self-sacrifice is sacrilegious in the world of Ayn. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 3, 2009
Two new biographies about the irascible and idiosyncratic Ayn Rand, objectivist philosopher and ham-fisted mistress of the capitalist morality tale, show how her rocky Russian childhood and her subsequent self-reinvention campaign in America (partly conducted in Hollywood, of course) influenced her work, and how her ideas led to her own undoing. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 13, 2009
What with all this economic turmoil of late, not to mention a suspected socialist in the White House, right-wing pundits like femmebot Michelle Malkin and fellow Fox-friendly cretin Glenn Beck are looking to "author, philosopher and female comb-over pioneer" Ayn Rand for guidance. Stephen Colbert thinks they should move to an island all their own, where less work gets done on purpose. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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