Thom Hartmann / Independent Media InstituteAug 13, 2019
"The Fountainhead" author drew inspiration from a child murderer. Now her sociopathic worldview has become the guiding ethos of the GOP. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
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 )
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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 )
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 )
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