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That same year, political scientist Alan Wolfe dismissed Rand as a "nonperson" among academics, an attitude that writer Ben Murnane later described as "the traditional academic view" of Rand. [250] In a 2018 article for Aeon, philosopher Skye C. Cleary wrote: "Philosophers love to hate Ayn Rand. It's trendy to scoff at any mention of her."
The Objectivist movement began with a small group of Rand's confidants and students who supported her philosophy of Objectivism.This group was at first known informally as "The Collective", and later gained more structure in the form of the Nathaniel Branden Institute (NBI), named after Rand's protege Nathaniel Branden, and a magazine that Rand and Branden co-edited.
Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism has been, and continues to be, a major influence on the right-libertarian movement, particularly libertarianism in the United States. Many right-libertarians justify their political views using aspects of Objectivism.
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right is a 2009 biography of Ayn Rand by historian Jennifer Burns. The author explores Rand's intellectual development and her relationship to the conservative and libertarian movements. The writing of Rand's books and the development of her philosophy of Objectivism are also covered.
A central goal for ARI throughout the 2010s has been to spread Objectivism globally. ARI helped establish the Ayn Rand Center Israel in 2012, the Ayn Rand Institute Europe in 2015 [31] and the Ayn Rand Center Japan in 2017. Each of these organizations are separate legal entities from the United States-based ARI, but they are all affiliated with ...
Pity the philosopher. Underpaid and underappreciated, professional thinkers are doomed to a terrible dilemma: in the best case, their ideas are likely to be ignored. In the worst case, they will ...
Ayn Rand: Her Life and Thought. Poughkeepsie, New York: The Atlas Society. 1996. ISBN 1-57724-031-6. Labor History Revisionism: A Libertarian Analysis of the Pullman Strike. London: Libertarian Alliance. 2003. Government and the Railroads During World War I: Political Capitalism and the Death of Enterprise. London: Libertarian Alliance. 2003.
Zionism to many Jewish people means, essentially, patriotism: a political ideology rooted in the establishment — and, later, promotion — of a refuge for Jews who throughout history had to ...