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Although she rejected the labels "conservative" and "libertarian", [279] [280] Rand has had a continuing influence on right-wing politics and libertarianism. [ 281 ] [ 282 ] Rand is often considered one of the three most important women (along with Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) in the early development of modern American libertarianism .
Rothbard would later become a particularly harsh critic of Rand, writing in The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult: The major lesson of the history of the [Objectivist] movement to libertarians is that It Can Happen Here, that libertarians, despite explicit devotion to reason and individuality, are not exempt from the mystical and totalitarian ...
Rand's impact on contemporary American libertarian thought has been considerable. The title of one libertarian magazine, Reason : Free Minds, Free Markets , is taken from John Galt, the hero of Atlas Shrugged , who argues that "a free mind and a free market are corollaries".
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.
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 ...
Russian-born philosopher Ayn Rand (1905–1982) publishes her novel Atlas Shrugged; it attracts the libertarian wing of American conservatism by promoting aggressive entrepreneurship and rejecting religion and altruism. She influences even those conservative intellectuals who reject her ethical system such as Buckley and Whittaker Chambers. [50 ...
Ayn Rand – novelist and founder of Objectivism, who clashed with traditional conservatives and with libertarians; Murray Rothbard – libertarian author and economist; YAF alum; Patrick Buchanan – political commentator and prominent paleoconservative; YAF alum; Sohrab Ahmari – opinion editor of The New York Post [25]
The Atlas Society (TAS) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand.It is part of the Objectivist movement that split off from the Ayn Rand Institute in 1990 due to disagreements over whether Objectivism was a "closed system" or an "open system". [1]