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Ayn Rand's hero burns the world down when he doesn't get his way. Her fans run the world – should we worry?

  • Written by: Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney
Ayn Rand's hero burns the world down when he doesn't get his way. Her fans run the world – should we worry?John Minchillo/AP

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Ayn Rand is “one of the most important intellectual voices in our culture,” wrote Gregory Salmieri, co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Ayn Rand, in 2016. He identifies a “pronounced disconnect” in responses to Rand’s books...

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