Tag Archives: Atlas Shrugged

With Ryan as VP, Rand Seizes the GOP

By Robin Bates | Published: August 13, 2012

With Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential choice, Ayn Rand’s novels have taken over the GOP.

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Ayn Rand vs. the Catholic Bishops

By Robin Bates | Published: May 3, 2012

The attack of the Catholic Bishops on Paul Ryan’s devotion to Ayn Rand’s ideas puts “Atlas Shrugged” once again in the news.

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Grendel as a Norwegian Christian Fascist

By Robin Bates | Published: July 26, 2011

Apparently Anders Breivik was very well read and he mentions George Orwell, Franz Kafka, and Ayn Rand. What I find striking about them on the list is that they all articulate high levels of paranoia.

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Ayn Rand vs. America’s Social Safety Net

By Robin Bates | Published: April 26, 2011

Normally I prefer to write on great literature, not on novels that make our lives worse. But given the outsized impact that novelist and social philosopher Ayn Rand is currently having on current American political discourse, literature blogs need to pay attention.

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The Insidious Novels of Ayn Rand

By Robin Bates | Published: May 24, 2010

When I first started hearing the name Rand Paul, I thought that it was a political pundit’s joke. I thought the talk was about his father, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, not the man who last week became Kentucky’s Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Since Ron Paul espouses certain libertarian principles, I assumed that people were […]

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