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Ayn Rand Against the World (w/ Jennifer Burns)

Know Your Enemy

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Ayn Rand's Political Evolution

This chapter examines Ayn Rand's journey as she moves to New York City in the early 1930s and begins to shape her novel 'We the Living,' reflecting on her family's experiences with communism. It discusses her philosophical evolution, marked by her interactions in the 1940 Wendell Wilkie campaign, and highlights her controversial views on individualism, capitalism, and relationships as portrayed in her subsequent work, 'The Fountainhead.' The chapter also contrasts Rand's ideology with that of contemporary figures like Friedrich Hayek, shedding light on her place within the post-war conservative movement.

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