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  • It was in the pursuit of intellectual property that Nathaniel intervened in Objectivist clubs to prevent them from using the word Objectivist, to prevent them from using quotes from John Galt, to prevent them even from advertising lectures on the topic by students of her ideas.

    Mises Dailies 2009

  • With Branden, she began a monthly called The Objectivist Newsletter, later expanded and renamed simply The Objectivist.

    Ayn Rand. 2009

  • I don't know if McCain has read Rand, but I'm sure his campaign staff is full of her "Objectivist" worshippers.

    Obama: A Vote For Me Is Vote For Bill Clinton Economy 2009

  • Before 'Objectivist' becomes too comfortable with his delusive certainties, why are the two largest ERV families CERV1 and CERV2 present in some supposed progenitors of humans but not in others, and in exactly the same chromosomal location!

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Many advocates of capitalism -- perhaps following the lead of Ayn Rand, the infamous minarchist behind the "Objectivist" cult of personality -- contribute to the mire by deliberately conflating ethical, political, and economic concepts, collapsing them all into the term 'capitalism' and setting it against the evils of 'collectivism' and 'statism' in the 20th-century Cold War dichotomy.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Patrick Vessey 2008

  • Many advocates of capitalism -- perhaps following the lead of Ayn Rand, the infamous minarchist behind the "Objectivist" cult of personality -- contribute to the mire by deliberately conflating ethical, political, and economic concepts, collapsing them all into the term 'capitalism' and setting it against the evils of 'collectivism' and 'statism' in the 20th-century Cold War dichotomy.

    Capitalism And Free Markets -- Semantics Matter Patrick Vessey 2008

  • For the principal figures of Rand's short-lived "Objectivist" movement were indeed like characters out of some theatrical farce.

    LewRockwell.com 2010

  • The virtue of selfishness characteristic of the "Objectivist" philosophy that Rand promotes in her writings allows no room for the virtue of altruism.

    Word Around the Net 2009

  • Human beings are not perfectly logical (or "Objectivist" as her devotees call themselves) and can't live "in the mind" all the time.

    Born Again Redneck 2009

  • I completely agree with Andrew Dalton's asinine take on Objectivism and a comic book character he claims represents an "Objectivist"

    Gus Van Horn 2009

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