Tag: Ayn Rand
2 posts tagged "Ayn Rand".
Russian-American novelist and philosopher (1905–1982) who fled the Soviet Union and built a fierce defence of individualism, rational self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism into the philosophy she called Objectivism. Her doorstop novels — The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged — dramatise the heroic producer against a parasitic collective, and remain perennial, divisive quake books for young readers. On this blog she sits at the radical pole of debates about personal autonomy, ethics, and rationality — admired for her insistence on thinking for oneself, criticised for the brittleness of her system. Her glorification of optimism and human achievement has made her an enduring touchstone in libertarian and entrepreneurial circles.
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Bro, Do You Even Lit? Why I Switched to Reading Fiction
Almost all my adult life I've been an infovore obsessed with hoovering up all the knowledge.
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Quake Books That Shake Up Your Brain
Gray matter lurches and heaves, while my few remaining brain cells huddle under the kitchen table. When the tremors finally stop, nothing looks the same.
