This is an aspect of what Ayn Rand called the pyramid of intellectual ability.
Sometimes Allison's aphorisms have a more contemporary sound: He's a big fan of Ayn Rand.
That is why Ayn Rand has an enormous reservoir of goodwill among the American people.
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Again starkly different than the picture you presented of immoral businessmen as equivalent to Ayn Rand heroes.
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Instead, he sounds like the standard-issue Ayn Rand acolyte, no different from Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan.
Today, Greece, Illinois, and Detroit are making Ayn Rand seem like a prophet.
Many believe Ayn Rand got her inspiration for Taggart Transcontinental in her novel Atlas Shrugged from the Great Northern.
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Was Ayn Rand suggesting that we simply remove ourselves from the discussion entirely?
Moreover, certain religious conservatives and even pseudo-defenders of Ayn Rand may work to deride and even sabotage the Romney-Ryan ticket.
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When I first arrived in SV, Ayn Rand was the big thinker, though she was long gone from the corporeal world.
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Yet the belief system constructed by Ayn Rand, who died 30 years ago today, has never been more popular or influential.
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He cites Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek as his biggest intellectual influences.
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Ayn Rand died more than a quarter of a century ago, yet her name appears regularly in discussions of our current economic turmoil.
Ayn Rand fans will be pleased to know that filming for the third installment of the Atlas Shrugged trilogy was greenlighted this past weekend.
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Both Andrew Ryan, the Ayn Rand-inspired objectivist villain from the first BioShock, and Zachary Comstock share one thing in common: an obsession with power.
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When Alisa Rosenbaum reached the United States in 1926 she adopted and wrote extensively under her new name, Ayn Rand, and that book was Atlas Shrugged.
His credentials as a social conservative on abortion and marriage equality and as a fiscally pure follower of Ayn Rand will certainly stimulate the right wing.
The more Ryan channels Ayn Rand's John Galt, the more people will value tax equity for the middle class and a sensible safety net for the unfortunate.
The pugnacious scientific genius, Vietnam veteran, and former surfer, like some Ayn Rand character, escaped the slow bureaucracy of academia so he could discover the blueprint of life.
The aptly-titled Ayn Rand and the World She Made provides new and illuminating insight into the psyche of one of the most influential philosophers of the last century.
First, there was former chairman Alan Greenspan blaming the bubble-bursting on "the investment community, " and vainly trying to deflect the legitimate and well-deserved carping against his free market Ayn Rand ideology.
This is probably why the Ayn Rand Institute, that flagship of right moral political philosophy, migrated its support from the gold standard to a system of free banking with private currencies.
Almost as soon Paul Ryan gained the status of Romney-running mate, supporters and detractors tried to tie Ryan to Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, and the intellectual author of Objectivism.
Not only has he digested the entire Ayn Rand syllabus of free market theory, but he's had the chance to put it to work from his headquarters on the plains north of Wichita.
The first Bioshock came close to touching on broader themes as well, though the end result was not much more than Ayn Rand sesame seeds on the bun of an otherwise totally normal burger.
With early roots in his 30-year association with the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, that faith grew into an unconstrained confidence in the free market and deregulation to steer the economy and ward off crises.
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There hasn't been a movie about architecture with this much popular appeal since that masterpiece of Hollywood kitsch, "The Fountainhead, " in which Gary Cooper played Howard Roark, the terminally romantic, fictional architect-hero of Ayn Rand's novel.
" Her competition includes Judy Davis for "Dash and Lilly, " Leelee Sobieski for "Joan of Arc, " Ann-Margret for "Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story" (Lifetime), and Helen Mirren for Showtime's "The Passion of Ayn Rand.
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