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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 .
Rand believed that political advocacy could not succeed without addressing what she saw as its methodological prerequisites. Rand rejected any affiliation with the libertarian movement and many other Objectivists have done so as well. [19] Of libertarians, Rand said: They're not defenders of capitalism. They're a group of publicity seekers.
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.
Presidential candidate (1988 Libertarian Party nominee, 2008 Republican candidate, 2012 Republican candidate) who promoted a libertarian agenda within the Republican Party [82] Justice Antonin Scalia: 1936–2016 Supreme Court justice known as a leading exponent of originalism and textualism [107] White House Communications Director Pat ...
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]
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 ...
People described as being left-libertarian or right-libertarian generally tend to call themselves simply libertarians and refer to their philosophy as libertarianism. In light of this, some authors and political scientists classify the forms of libertarianism into two groups, [ 30 ] [ 31 ] namely left-libertarianism and right-libertarianism ...
Rothbard later satirized Rand's acolytes in his unpublished one-act farce Mozart Was a Red [58] and his essay "The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult". [ 56 ] : 184 [ 59 ] [ 60 ] He characterized Rand's circle as a "dogmatic, personality cult".