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Search for "Ayn Rand" on Ask.com and you get related subject areas such as "objectivism" on the right, even though those subjects might not have the actual words "Ayn Rand" in them. Type the same search in Google, and you get a list of sites that have "Ayn Rand" in them. Google finds key words, not concepts. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/whats_t...s_become_teoma/

The source of [the governing generation's] lack of respect for the public realm is very specific. It is the self-absorbed narcissism of the “selfish is good” philosophy of Ayn Rand and her ideological acolytes combined with the Libertarian libel that there is no such thing as the “common good.” [....] This ideology denies the fundamental reason that societies organize communities in the first place -- to respond to needs people cannot meet individually. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/squande..._of_the_future/

Every Wednesday evening in October, TCM offers "Architecture in Film." The festival begins at 8 p.m. Wednesday with "The Fountainhead," a 1949 film starring Gary Cooper as a Manhattan architect whose housing project design is altered from his original plans; rather than accept a perversion of his work, he dynamites the building. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/on_tv1/

Browse Red Sky's sweets menu for items like the warm brownie sundae, served with an insane chocolate chip banana gelato. At this rate, you'll be naked in bed reading The Fountainhead to each other in no time. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/the_im_...sexing_me_date/

Across India thousands of dirt poor Indian farmers are driven to suicide each year because of debt and poverty caused directly by the policies of globalization (led by US capitalism) as well as the pro "free" market attitudes of the Indian government. [...]. The [New York] Times says that "economic reforms " have "opened" (read "exposed") the peasants to world competition and that they have "access to" (read "are forced to buy") expensive and promising biotechnology." Sounds like a good deal. An Ayn Randian dream. Competition and science to the rescue. [...]. But, oops, the "reforms" have a downside in that they haven't "necessarily opened the way to higher prices, bank loans, irrigation or insurance against pests and rain." And the "free " part of "free trade" includes the US giving "$18 billion a year to its own farmers." http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/capital...lt_and_suicide/

There are two groups of people participating in the destruction of the American middle class. The first is those who benefit directly from it economically [....]. Then the second group is the ideologues, the true believers -- the libertarians and objectivists who read Ayn Rand and truly believe that pure unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism is not only a good economic system, but is also a good political system. They’re perhaps the most dangerous and destructive. [...]. And they get it that there’s something in it for them. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/thom_ha...king_middle_cl/

Angelina Jolie has managed to land the role that many of Hollywood's top leading ladies have been eyeing for a long time - the heroine of author Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...tent_697250.htm

Angelina Jolie is set to star in an adaptation of "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand's political novel about the destructive effects of altruism on the Individual [....]. An otherwise sentient being, Jolie once told CNBC, Rand has a very interesting philosophy, boiling it down to self-therapy: "You re-evaluate your own life and what's important to you." Heavy. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/channel...series_on_race/

In the midst of the U. S. A. going nearly broke from the Iraq War, the War on Terror, and a rupturing corporate and personal welfare state, I cannot imagine something much more pointless. Read article at Free Market Network News http://www.Freemarketnews.com/Analysis/117...17&nid=6033

Premiering at the festival will be [...] Suparna Chaddha's 'When Atlas Shrugged Again' highlighting the ongoing relief work in Uri, one of the worst-hit areas in last year's earthquake, festival manager Ashwini Sinha said. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/two_day...nmental_issues/

Angelina Jolie is getting ready to take a run-up and do a great big moviemaking bellyflop - she's getting ready to star in an adaptation of Atlas Shrugged, a monumentally heavy-going objectivist 1,100 page book written by one of the 20th century's leading philosophers. Woo-hoo! Save us a line in the popcorn queue for this one! http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/angelin...tic_atlas_book/

In her 1957 novel, ''Atlas Shrugged,'' Ayn Rand gave us a warning on how the pope should have handled the militant Muslim reaction to his recent speech. In the chapter, ''This Is John Galt Speaking,'' she gave the following context-setting remarks. ''There are two sides to every issue: One side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.'' http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/no_apol...tant_islamists/

According to the website for the Ayn Rand Institute, the basis of Objectivism is “Existence exists—and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness being the faculty of perceiving that which exists.” http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/angelin...atlas_shrugged/

Angelina Jolie is the latest pin-up for "guerrilla artist" Banksy after spending £200,000 on works at his well-sited show in Los Angeles, an easy art-buying stroll from Beverley Hills. She's invested in various drawing-room talking points, including a white bust with a bleeding bullet hole in the forehead. Jolie is going to need inspiration after landing the part of power-woman Dagny Taggart in the film version of feminist icon Ayn Rand's vast novel Atlas Shrugged. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/hindi_f...scar_contender/

Angelina Jolie will star in the movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged , the ambitious 1,100-page novel by Russian-born American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, Variety reported yesterday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...55760&imw=Y

Washington, Sept 22 (ANI): Angelina Jolie has managed to land the role that many of Hollywood's top leading ladies have been eyeing for a long time - the heroine of author Ayn Rand's novel 'Atlas Shrugged'. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc.../139/67twb.html

A wonderful aspect of a free, capitalist society is that nearly everything is privately owned. Read article at Free Market Network News http://www.Freemarketnews.com/Analysis/117...17&nid=6014

As defined by the Ayn Rand Institute, the term "multiculturalism" is the view that all cultures, from that of a spirits-worshiping tribe to that of an advanced industrial civilization, are equal in value. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/the_end...lticulturalism/

The architecture festival [on Turner Classic Movies] will have four subjects. The first, on Oct. 4, will be “Architects on screen,” five movies that include “The Fountainhead,” based on the novel by Ayn Rand; “Antonio Gaudi,” about a Spanish architect; and “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” a 1948 comedy with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/a_cable...ld_an_audience/

What [Muslim children who are taught to seek martyrdom] could use is some major deprogramming. For starters, the suicide-promoting poetry in their curriculum could be replaced with some Ayn Rand, the perfect antidote for self-immolation. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/children_as_bombs/

Conservatives who have warmed to Stone will be pleased to hear that he hopes to direct a version of Ayn Rand's classic right-wing novel, The Fountainhead, although he has little truck with Rand's politics. I like it for other reasons, he argues. For her emphasis on individualism and sticking to your guns. http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/braced_...ritical_impact/

I’ve been remiss, for a couple weeks now, in not mentioning that the Atlasphere has a new editor! Our new editor is Carol Brass, pictured at right. Carol is a senior at UCLA, majoring in philosophy, and has been an Atlasphere member since March 2006. She is now firmly at the helm of the Atlasphere columns, finding new content for your enjoyment each week. If you have ideas for columns you would like to publish at the Atlasphere (and be paid for), please contact her at carol -at- theatlasphere.com. Please see our writers guidelines for additional information about submitting columns. We currently have 3,745 readers who have signed up to receive an announcement each time we publish a new column — so you’re guaranteed a very nice-sized readership at the Atlasphere! http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/584.php

There’s never been a writer quite like Ayn Rand. Her third novel, The Fountainhead (1943), won her an enduring, impassioned following by extolling what she would later call “the virtue of selfishness.” http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...jectivism.shtml

The new issue of People magazine contains this quote from Brandon Routh, Hollywood’s new Superman: “I don’t know if most people will want to read something this heavy, but I really recommend Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It will take you all summer to read but you just might learn something, be inspired and have your opinions changed.” Sweet. Somebody tell him about the upcoming Atlas Shrugged movie. Is he Latin enough for Francisco? Inscrutable enough for Galt? Let the speculation begin! Hat-tip: (via Bidinotto). http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/576.php

The situation may not be as simple as “Living Under Capitalism = Being Happier” but a new article in New Scientist called “Wealthy Nations Hold the Key to Happiness” suggests that such a conclusion is not far from the truth. The “Map of World Happiness” below sums it up pretty well. Red indicates happiness. Yellow indicates unhappiness. From the article: According to the analysis, a country’s happiness is closely related to its wealth, along with the health and education levels of its people. It is no surprise that people spending heavily on healthcare, such as US citizens, rank highly, says White, as this investment increases life expectancy and general wellbeing. “There is a belief that capitalism leads to unhappy people,” he says. “However, when people are asked if they are happy with their lives, people in countries with good healthcare, a higher [earnings] per capita, and access to education were much more likely to report being happy.” Many thanks to friend and political-happiness scholar for calling this new article to our attention. This certainly adds an interesting twist to the “Materialism = Unhappiness” equation that we hear advanced a lot, implicitly or otherwise, in American Buddhist and leftist circles. Here is an interesting tidbit: Countries that rank in the top 20 in both White’s list and the Happy Planet Index – presumably very happy places indeed – are Costa Rica, Bhutan and Antigua and Barbuda. I wonder what these countries have going for them. http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/572.php