Mentions (19)
"his political incoherence - wanting to read ayn rand while raving about uncle ted - is too good."
"By contrast, look at our current political leaders and "titans of industry". Their obsessions are, like, MMA, AI, crypto, Ayn Rand, etc."
"I'm in high school and I take a philosophy class, the teacher is annoying and loves ayn rand. He brought up red scare and said it was leftist and then said he liked it because it was "a new part of the left that is more self critical.""
"I got the impression she's one of those altruistic people who forgot to take care of herself, sort of like an Ayn Rand anti-hero."
"he was also an insane libertarian—he'd text me paragraphs on paragraphs about his libertarian beliefs that i could barely understand because i'm a fucking bimbo. he told me to read ayn rand and because i was simping for him so hard after 8 months of no sex i bought the book and read the first 100 pa"
"And he replied with his noble vision: to inject Ayn Rand's Objectivist school of philosophy into American legal discourse. Shimon then lamented on the liberal professors who unfairly rebuked his essays, the liberal students who cared about the environment and not Atlas Shrugged, and the bitch at Har"
"Ethnically confused Russian Jew with irreparable Daddy issues, a penchant for flimsy and capricious pseudo-intellectual posturing - and a brilliant innate gift for convincing the credulous and gullible that her idiosyncratic worldview is somehow universal."
"Some women feel so constrained by the social expectation for women to be empathetic that they reject empathy completely. This is how you get Ayn Rand and Helen Andrews types. It ends up reenforcing the very thing they rebel against, though, since they articulate their rejection of unfair social expe"
"Outside of the meth and steroids. His obsession with Ayn Rand has always been interesting to me."
"Perhaps the real reason Anna never finished her PhD is that she is only now, at 40, discovering Ayn Rand with the zeal of a sophomore in high school. God willing, before she dies, she may yet make it through the SparkNotes of Nietzsche."
"Just spotted a woman in a vegan cafe in Cambridge reading Ayn Rand. And not even performatively scowling to make it clear that she disapproved. Truly the vibes have shifted."
"*Atlas Shrugged* by Ayn Rand - 500,000 words about steel foundries. I got about two-thirds through and then just realised life is too short."
"Ethnically confused Russian Jew with irreparable Daddy issues, a penchant for flimsy and capricious pseudo-intellectual posturing - and a brilliant innate gift for convincing the credulous and gullible that her idiosyncratic worldview is somehow universal."
"His obsession with Ayn Rand has always been interesting to me."
"In the first edition of Ayn Rand's novel We the Living, published in 1936, the heroine – a fictional rendering of the author – tells her Bolshevik lover"
"she is only now, at 40, discovering Ayn Rand with the zeal of a sophomore in high school"
"Just spotted a woman in a vegan cafe in Cambridge reading Ayn Rand"
"*Atlas Shrugged* by Ayn Rand - 500,000 words about steel foundries."