A Hard Look at Paul Ryan

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 9, 2012 The New Yorker has published an insightful, if unsurprising, profile of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, detailing how the young lawmaker became a champion of today’s form of arch-libertarianism and how he’s worked to push that ideology into the mainstream of the Republican Party. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Outgrowing Ayn Rand

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 12, 2012 For the failure of such a wide swath of the American population to outgrow individual self-interest, the United States may as well be a nation full of teenagers, says Victoria Bekiempis, a “recovering Objectivist” writing in The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Here Comes the Capital Strike

Staff / Truthdig Nov 26, 2011 From his seat in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner announced in mid-September that American business owners would continue to hold the nation's wealth (and thus the public welfare) hostage until government granted them the “low-tax, deregulated world they wanted,” writes journalist and author Thomas Frank in Harper’s online. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Ayn Rand Fans Mortified by DVD Slander

Staff / Truthdig Nov 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 )

Waving the ‘Anarcho-Capitalism’ Flag

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2011 It's a theory that seeks the removal of government oversight from any and all economic and social activity, which has been steadily adopted by legislators and policymakers on the right, and some on the left, for the past three decades, and tea partiers may actually be opposed to it. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Good Witch O’Donnell

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Oct 12, 2010 Dig deeper

Ayn Rand Revisited

Staff / Truthdig Nov 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 )

Conservatives ♥ Ayn Rand

Staff / Truthdig Mar 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 )