The resistance against Barack Obama's radical agenda has begun. Seeds of discontent have been planted by Americans of a variety of political stripes, backgrounds, religions, ethnic groups, etc. Its the 1960s all over again. Well, not exactly. There won’t be flower children frolicking throu...

Atlas Shrugged the literary classic which promotes individual enterprise above all else during tough economic times has catapulted up the charts since the recession....

PART TWO OF TWO PARTS In the previous post I discussed the Ayn Rand novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’, and how the intent of that novel is most relevant right now. So, then how does something like this apply to the current situation we are in now? Is it just following something from a fiction novel...

PART ONE OF TWO PARTS I made mention the other day about how the situation in the Ayn Rand novel, ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is as relevant today as when the book was written in 1957. It was also mentioned in the same post from Michelle Malkin where she said that some of the people are ‘Going Galt’, w...

The second personage of the Libertarian Chick Triumvirate is the grand duchess of liberty herself, Ayn Rand—who was a contemporary of fellow founder of modern libertarianism Rose Wilder Lane , whom I featured a couple days ago. The downside of Ayn Rand is the debating society, known as libertarian...

Brad DeLong reminds conservatives that John Galt’s views on religion probably don’t coincide with theirs: What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that...

Via Matt Yglesias, may I present Representative John Campbell, who lets us all know that our betters are outraged, outraged I tell you at the economic policies of the president: Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), who gives his departing interns copies of Ayn Rand’s novel "Atlas Shrugged," told me ...

As Stephen Gordon notes, a meme has arisen among some righty bloggers that purports to echo the spirit of Ayn Rand’s iconic hero: Michelle Malkin has begun hammering the “Going Galt” theme, and it’s the subject of a long post by Melissa Clouthier today, and Donald Douglas als...

Michelle Malkin TonyfromOz prefaces ….. The reference in the title refers to one of the main characters in the book ‘Atlas Shrugged‘ written by Ayn Rand in 1957. If you haven’t read this book, I urge you to get a copy. It’s as relevant now as it was when it was first wr...

The last major economic crisis to have a discernible effect on culture as well as politics was probably the one that started in the mid-1970s and reached its nadir during the Carter Administration. It is memorable for such fads as Pet Rocks (1975), leisure suits (c. 1976-77), and the "preppy look" a...