Ayn Rand

The Purge Is Good For at Least a Trilogy of Scholastic Originals

A Dark Truth

THE COMEDY MANIFESTO

Ayn Rand’s ghost haunts Housing Works

North Sea Texas

Atlas Shrugged Part Two: Why can't the free market make this movie any better?

Paul Ryan Is In Love With St. Thomas Aquinas; What Does This Mean? (UPDATE)

Since Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as a running mate, many media outlets have pointed out the Wisconsin Rep's interest in Ayn Rand. And they should -- Ayn Rand's basic schtick is that selfishness is a virtue and as such, the only ethical economic system is pure capitalism. Under Rand, any social s ... More >>

You've Been Trumped: The Ugly American

Donald Trump rampages through Scotland

Free Will Astrology: June 20-26. 2012

Richard's Wedding

Sex Mad: Why the Rightblogger Obsession With Ladyparts Never Ends

With all the recent women's health controversies -- Komen/Planned Parenthood, contraception in Catholic hospitals, and Virginia's plan to wand women who want abortions -- and their potential to steer women's votes away from Republicans, you'd think conservatives would prefer to get back to talking a ... More >>

Ron Paul to Jay Leno: Michele Bachmann 'Hates' Muslims

​Last night, Ron Paul was on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno promoting his new romantic comedy Unfair Trade, in which he plays a Libertarian Congressman who won't settle for anyone less than Ayn Rand (played by Katherine Heigl). He's also running for president, so Leno decided to ask him some q ... More >>

The Occupy Wall Street Library: Librarians Display the Ruins

Mike Bloomberg has already come under fire for just about every aspect of the late-night raid that cleared Occupy Wall Street out of Zuccotti last week. From reports of police violence, to keeping members of the press from observing the action, to disregarding a restraining order reopening the park, ... More >>

Deserved Second Act for Paul Newman's Sometimes a Great Notion

Free Will Astrology: October 12-18, 2011

Glenn Beck Moving to the Internet; Arianna Huffington Pissing Off New AOL Team

​After some unsuccessful press jockeying on both sides, negotiations between Fox News and their cash cow-turned-credibility sucker Glenn Beck pretty much disintegrated and so they worked together on his exit from the channel. Now it's time for him to ride his intensely angry, loyal and crazy m ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Atlas Shrugged: It's the Feel-Good, Piece-of-Crap Movie of the Year!

When best-selling books like The DaVinci Code or the Twilight series become movies, their fans take to the internet to share their excitement. They argue over the film's fidelity to their favorite characters and scenes, and revel in their love-object's moment in the cinematic sun. So too it has bee ... More >>

There Is an Ayn Rand Dating Site

So, want to get a drink sometime? ​Some people are really, really into Ayn Rand. You've seen them. There are hordes of self-described Objectivists, hacking their way through Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead on the subway. Now those people have the Atlasphere, a dating website just for them.

Honoring the Voice Senior Film Critic's New Book, An Army of Phantoms, at BAM

Ayn Rand Hipsters = 'Hipster Shrugged'

​Every now and then, some lonesome soul on Twitter will try to get a hashtag or trend of their own invention to catch on, and most of the time, it doesn't work, and nobody really hears about them. One person recently did this, but much to their surprise, found the few people who played along w ... More >>

The New York Observer vs. New York's $100M Cult: The Top 10 Lines

​Have you read this week's New York Observer cover story, entitled 'Poor Little Rich Girls: The Ballad of Sara and Clare Bronfman'? No? You should. It's about: Absurdly rich young heiresses. Absurdly rich young heiresses to the Seagram's Gin fortune -- among other fortunes -- who lost $10 ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: An Immigrant's Heart

​In this week's Village Voice, a (literally) bleeding-heart story: Julia Amparo-Alvarado, an illegal Guatemalan immigrant who escaped her country's internal strife for a better life, isn't well. The figurative nature of enlarged and battered heart manifested in the physical form. And now, beca ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The-Dream, Miley Cyrus, the Great Dancehall Freeze Out, Jazz Consumer Guide, and More

Courtesy Def-Jam Records In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla marvels at the brilliant stupidity of r&b lothario The-Dream. Theon Weber examines the calculated rebellion of Miley Cyrus. Jesse Serwer reports on the Great Dancehall Freeze-Out of 2010, during which many of Jamaica's biggest act ... More >>

Ayn Rand's Ideal Is No Fountainhead of Genius

A rarely seen play gets a staging at 59E59 Theaters

Summer Guide: Directors Ivo Van Hove and Peter Stein Anchor at Governors Island

The Lincoln Center Festival brings high art to the harbor

Chill, Bro. $50B Swindle Ain't No Thang: Former Lehman Bros. Bankers Could Give a Shit

​The New York Observer's Max Abelson opens a piece quoting three former Lehman Brothers executives on the Repo 105 scam, noting that the first of two ways to react to the Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy examiner is to lose faith in man. The second reaction is, of course, to shrug. And the third re ... More >>

Duncan Campbell and the Bruce High Quality Foundation Take A Bumpy Ride to Utopia

Post-post-punk art crews buckle up for disenchantment

New York's Community-Labor Divide

A nasty split as the Council finally bucks the mayor

Spitzer Comeback Continues with Lecture at Harvard Ethics Center

Former governor Eliot Spitzer will lecture on Thursday at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard -- his topic is, "From Ayn Rand to Ken Feinberg - How Quickly the Paradigm Shifts. What Should Be the Rationale for Government Participation in the Market?" -- which provokes the us ... More >>

Rightwing, Tea'd Out, Returns to Galt-Going

Now that the tea parties are settled, we can return to traditional conservative concerns -- sloppy dressers, and Going Galt. George Will today decries the common herd's taste for denim (did you know that even "Silicon Valley billionaires" wear it?), TV programming that "frequently features childli ... More >>

Galt TV! Randroids Explain Their Budding Movement

When we saw this link to this Pajamas Media video, in which Dr. Helen Smith interviews rightblogger Megan McArdle and a trio of folks who are alleged to be going John Galt -- the latest cool conservative fad, in which patriots reduce their productive labor to foil the socialist Obama Administratio ... More >>

Rightbloggers Say: Go Galt! We'll Catch Up With You Later!

President Obama has proposed ending the Bush tax cuts in 2011, bringing the top rates from 33 percent to 36 percent and from 35 percent to 39.6 percent. The lower of these hikes would apply to individuals making over $200,000 and households making over $250,000. This is not really news, as Obama ... More >>

Rich Rightwingers Threaten to "Go Galt," Make Less Money to Thwart Obama

At the Washington Independent, Dave Weigel talks to some conservatives who believe that Obama's plan to slightly raise taxes on folks making over $250,000 a year amounts to socialism, and who plan (or at least talk about) "going John Galt" to evade them. The reference is to an Ayn Rand book in whi ... More >>

Governor Paterson Means Business

Spitzer's successor disses his bad old radical self

Greenspan deregulated!

Daily Flog II: U.S. Moves Toward Nationalizing Banks

Daily Flog: Wall Street's broken brokers go for broke; McCain's lie is buried by meltdown news

'Kirchner and the Berlin Street' and More

Atlas Drowned

A crumbling utopia sets the stage for the world's most fascinating shooter

Deep Water

Summer Books: That's Not Fair

As the memoir boom winds down, authors are training their sights on sis and bro.

Books

Morning Report 11/15/05
Confining Their Remarks

Shuffling Pages

Touring a church in search of literary phantoms made flesh

I, Robot

As Harvard Prez ignites women-in-science flap, this writer recalls her path to M.I.T.

The Goldbug Variations

Iverson vs. Kobe

Don’t Believe the Hype

Two-Bedroom Apartment in Three-Story Attached House

Letters

Gettin’ Randy

The Polecat Makes a Comeback

Shape Shifting