Ayn Rand’s novels help explain why certain billionaires are gravitating to Donald Trump. Trump’s own enthusiasm about “The Fountainhead” is also revealing.
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Trump, His Billionaires, and Ayn Rand
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Conquering the Darkness Within
Pratchett’s novel “Thud!” is a plea to find inner strength rather than yielding to blind rage.
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Warning to Fans of Authoritarianism
Applying “The Frogs Who Wished for a King” to the U.S., Biden is King Log and Trump King Crane.
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Nikki Haley, Straight Out of 1984
Nikki Haley, who has just announced her presidential ambitions, resembles Tom Parsons in “1984”–which is to say, a soulless apparatchik.
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