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[283] [284] David Nolan, one founder of the Libertarian Party, said that "without Ayn Rand, the libertarian movement would not exist". [285] In his history of that movement, journalist Brian Doherty described her as "the most influential libertarian of the twentieth century to the public at large". [ 257 ]
Responding to a question about the Libertarian Party of the United States in 1976, Rand said: The trouble with the world today is philosophical: only the right philosophy can save us. But this party plagiarizes some of my ideas, mixes them with the exact opposite—with religionists, anarchists and every intellectual misfit and scum they can ...
Hospers was interested in Objectivism, and was once a friend of the philosopher Ayn Rand, though she later broke with him. In 1972, Hospers became the first presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, and was the only minor party candidate to receive an electoral vote in that year's U.S. presidential election. [1]
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.
Rand used interviews with scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the character Robert Stadler. Rand biographer Anne Heller traces some ideas that would go into Atlas Shrugged back to a never-written novel that Rand outlined when she was a student at Petrograd State University. The futuristic story featured an American heiress luring the most ...
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 ...
The same year also saw the publication of Paterson's The God of the Machine and Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead. Because of these writings, the three women have been referred to as the founding mothers of the American libertarian movement .
Leonard Sylvan Peikoff (/ ˈ p iː k ɒ f /; born October 15, 1933) is a Canadian American philosopher. [3] He is an Objectivist and was a close associate of Ayn Rand, who designated him heir to her estate.