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Marilyn Moore

Senior Editor Marilyn Moore thinks that Ayn Rand is a great American writer, and with a Ph.D in literature, she writes literary analysis that proves it. As Director of Student Programs, Moore trains Atlas Advocates to share Ayn Rand’s ideas on college campuses and leads discussions with Atlas Intellectuals seeking an Objectivist perspective on timely topics. Moore travels nationwide speaking and networking on college campuses and at liberty conferences.

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Member Spotlight: Kyle Ver Steeg, M.D.

My first wife. I wasn't much of a reader then, but she recommended Atlas Shrugged. She never recommended a book before, but she thought I'd like it. I thought, well that's curious. So I went ahead and started reading it. And the more I read it, the more my attitude changed.

Jun 12, 2020
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Trustee Spotlight: Jay Lapeyre

Jun 2, 2020
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Member Spotlight: Jaroslav Romanchuk

Romanchuk has been involved with The Atlas Society since the 1990s. He spoke with me from his home in Minsk via Zoom.

May 22, 2020
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Member Spotlight: Alan J. Dlugash, CPA

I started in accounting at the age of six. My father saw me doing arithmetic homework and said, “Why do you need to solve made up problems?” So he gave me his business ledgers and had me add up the columns.

May 15, 2020
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3 min
Member Spotlight: John Bechtel

There's a difference between willful blindness and being born blind and not knowing what it's like to be able to see. I was born into a closed environment where association with outsiders was forbidden. Even reading was confined to school textbooks.

May 1, 2020
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3 min
The Atlas Society Asks Sam Sorbo: Are We Ready for Homeschool?

By default, many parents are homeschooling now. School closures have also raised questions about whether the high cost of government education is providing decent returns, given the all too often dismal results.

Apr 23, 2020
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3 min
Member Spotlight: Vanessa Porras

It was terrible. I was ten years old when Hugo Chavez became president in 1999, and life got very depressing. We were no longer free. There was no more respect for us as individuals. There was no more private property.

Apr 17, 2020
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3 min
THE ATLAS SOCIETY ASKS Grover Norquist

Grover Norquist is the first person we asked. Norquist is the President of Americans for Tax Reform and a longtime advocate for keeping the size and scope of government in check –– as a result he’s been a lightning rod of criticism for those seeking to blame limited government for the spread of coronavirus in the United States.

Apr 16, 2020
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Member Spotlight: Legacy Donor Dr. Greg Bulkley

A high school English teacher recognized my individualism. He introduced me to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance,” George Orwells’ novels 1984 and Animal Farm, Ibsen’s play “The Enemy of the People,” and David Karp’s novel One.

Apr 9, 2020
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3 min
Member Spotlight: Social Psychologist Joe Duarte, Ph.D.

Friends and members of The Atlas Society are a major source of knowledge and wisdom. Social Psychologist Joe Duarte, Ph.D. recently spoke

Mar 24, 2020
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3 min
Rand Rising: A Member Spotlight with Jennifer Bukowsky

Editor’s Note: Members and friends of The Atlas Society provide us with a wealth of wisdom. Atlas Society supporter Jennifer Bukowsky is an

Mar 3, 2020
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3 min
The Legacy of Totalitarianism: An Interview with Alfred Kentigern Siewers

Editor’s Note: Alfred Kentigern Siewers is associate professor of English at Bucknell University and 2018–2019 William E. Simon visiting

Feb 17, 2020
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3 min
Member Spotlight: Niko Gjaja – Collectivism is a Pipe Dream

I was born in Belgrade, in August 1935, to a Ph.D mechanical engineer father and a conservatory-trained pianist mother. IN LIBRARY WITH R

Nov 5, 2019
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3 min
Girl Friends

I think that one thing that Paterson’s writings give us is the opportunity to see what happens when power is concentrated by political mean

Oct 25, 2019
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3 min
An Interview with Sam Sorbo

Absolutely! I think that what she accomplished intellectually, coming from Russia and going so far libertarian was really just a feat of the

Aug 26, 2019
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3 min
Member’s Spotlight: An Interview with Sonia Vigen

Friends and members of The Atlas Society are among our greatest resources – providing energy, ideas, and support that actively shape our work. Their individual stories are testaments to Ayn Rand’s ideals of reason, achievement, and ethical self-interest.

Jul 29, 2019
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3 min
An Interview with Economist and International Affairs Activist Gloria Alvarez

MM: You will be the keynote speaker at The Atlas Society’s third annual gala October 10 in New York City. Let’s tell people who you are and

Jul 9, 2019
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3 min
An Interview with Robin Craig, Author of Hannibal’s Witch

In addition to my interest in science I have always had a creative streak expressed in painting and music, but had never considered fiction

Jun 24, 2019
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3 min
Ayn Rand’s “Patents and Copyrights”

To set up the climax of her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand had her protagonist, the genius architect Howard Roark, make a deal with

May 28, 2019
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3 min
This Day in (Literary) History: May 15

In Book 2, Chapter 6 of Atlas Shrugged, on May 15, Dr. Lloyd Ferris, head of the State Science Institute, extorts from Henry Rearden the

May 15, 2019
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3 min
An Interview with Larry Abrams, author of The Philosophical Practitioner

MM: Did you invent the profession of philosophical practitioner?

May 6, 2019
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3 min
Downward Dog, Upward Excellence: A Review of Little Black Stretchy Pants, by Chip Wilson

Chip Wilson’s dad, an athletics instructor, was coaching his son during a swim meet, with the advice: “Why don’t you just go full out from..

Apr 29, 2019
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3 min
Member Spotlight: Diana Amsden

DA: Since the early 1990s. David Kelley introduced himself at a Reason Foundation event (perhaps John Stossel or Margaret Thatcher was speak

Apr 26, 2019
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3 min
Not Changing Her Mind

In 1972, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer challenged and defeated Boris Spassky, the defending champion from the USSR, in the World

Apr 15, 2019
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3 min
Interview with Jason Stotts, author of Eros and Ethos: A New Theory of Sexual Ethics

That’s an interesting question. Yes and no. My book doesn’t directly address the question of trust between the sexes around sexuality...

Apr 8, 2019
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3 min
Is Wealth and Privilege the Problem?

Boston U. S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, who broke the case charging parents and university officials with cheating on college admissions

Apr 6, 2019
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3 min
An Interview with Matt Cook, Ph. D., Bestselling Author of Sabotage

Matt Cook, Ph.D. is an economist, bestselling author, and composer based in Los Angeles. He founded Braveship Media, an entertainment consul

Apr 1, 2019
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3 min
Blame and Flame at Tulane

Police are investigating what motivated three university students to set fire to the Tulane University dorm room door of Peyton Lofton...

Mar 28, 2019
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3 min
“The Age of Envy” Revisited

Ayn Rand wrote about envy in her novels, her popular nonfiction, even in her journals and letters. It was a problem she examined from every

Mar 18, 2019
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3 min
Member Spotlight: Arno Vigen

I grew up in California in the 1960s and 1970s, then graduated from UCLA with a BA in Mathematics. Since my parents were divorced, I worked

Mar 7, 2019
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3 min
Time to Burn Straw Men: Addressing the Clichéd Arguments Against Ayn Rand

In his recent book, The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties, Paul Collier mentions Ayn Rand. The comment is a one-off, so I’ll

Feb 21, 2019
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3 min
An Interview with Thriller Author Robert Bidinotto

Growing up during the 1950s, Robert Bidinotto became enthralled by TV vigilante heroes, such as The Lone Ranger, Zorro, and Batman. That

Feb 18, 2019
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3 min
In Money We Trust?, by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames

“So you think money is the root of all evil?” That is the question the wealthy, dashing copper magnate Francisco d’Anconia asked at the...

Jan 28, 2019
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3 min
January 22

For fans of Atlas Shrugged, January 22 marks the anniversary of the destruction of Rearden Steel.

Jan 22, 2019
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3 min
On the Telephone

W. S. Gifford, the president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, called London on January 7, 1927 to speak with Sir Evelyn...

Jan 3, 2019
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3 min
First Notes for The Strike

On January 1, 1945, Ayn Rand opened her journal and began writing notes for her fourth novel.

Dec 27, 2018
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3 min
Ayn Rand and the Bill of Rights

On December 15, 1791, the United States Congress ratified the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing indi

Dec 11, 2018
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3 min
Drinks with Friends

On December 5, 1933, Congress ratified the 21st Amendment and repealed Prohibition. While Ayn Rand personally rarely drank alcohol, she

Dec 3, 2018
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3 min
Filming The Fountainhead

In the fall of 1943, Warner Brothers paid Ayn Rand $50,000 for the movie rights to The Fountainhead and for Rand to write the screenplay...

Nov 26, 2018
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3 min
The Courage to Face a Lifetime

Ayn Rand recognized the important role music played in Western culture: “To the Western man, music is an intensely personal experience and

Nov 20, 2018
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Fighting Words: Ayn Rand and the Military

Ayn Rand had no love for war. In a journal entry from 1946 she recognized that war was the purest expression of statism and the antithesis

Nov 12, 2018
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A Rand Inspired New Novel about Limited Government

As the midterm elections come and go, it is a good time to remember that Ayn Rand defended limited government. She had concerns about just

Nov 9, 2018
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Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged Places in the Top 20 on The Great American Read

PBS announced the results of The Great American Read on October 23, 2018. Out of 100 novels, fans placed Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.

Nov 1, 2018
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Fiction Under the Influence: Ayn Rand’s Literary Legacy

This is how it starts. You read We the Living and get a taste for freedom. You read Anthem and develop a benevolent sense of life. You read

Oct 19, 2018
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Fiction Under the Influence: Ayn Rand’s Literary Legacy Details

Fiction Under the Influence: Ayn Rand’s Literary Legacy

Oct 19, 2018
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What Irony Replaced: Henry James, Ayn Rand, and American Romanticism Part 6

Early in Atlas Shrugged, Dagny and her then-lover Hank Rearden, the brilliant and hardworking founder and head of Rearden Metal, decided to

Aug 20, 2018
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What Irony Replaced: Henry James, Ayn Rand, and American Romanticism Part 5

A second critical difference that sheds light on the divergent universes of Henry James and Ayn Rand is how they conceived human action.....

Aug 13, 2018
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What Irony Replaced: Henry James, Ayn Rand, and American Romanticism Part 4

The Portrait of a Lady is considered the greatest novel by one of the greatest novelists in the English language....

Aug 6, 2018
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What Irony Replaced: Henry James, Ayn Rand, and American Romanticism Part 3

Henry James did not consider the subject matter of his novels to be inherently the proper one for all novelists. It was the proper one for

Jul 30, 2018
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What Irony Replaced: Henry James, Ayn Rand, and American Romanticism Part 2

Henry James wrote his essay “A Lecture on the Art of Fiction” in 1884 in response to novelist Walter Besant. Besant gave a lecture at the...

Jul 23, 2018
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What Irony Replaced: Henry James, Ayn Rand, and American Romanticism Part 1

Henry James (1843-1916) is a major American author. His numerous novels and novellas include What Maisie Knew, The Turn of the Screw, The

Jul 17, 2018
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Her Better Judgment: Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, and the Shape of the American Novel, Part 5

Ayn Rand was right of course. Rand was right about living conditions in Russia. She was right about the logical conclusions of communism....

May 25, 2018
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3 min
Her Better Judgment: Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, and the Shape of the American Novel, Part 4

As Dreiser depicts them, Clyde Griffiths and Roberta Alden are not lovers so much as they are victims. Biology and society conspire against

May 14, 2018
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Her Better Judgment: Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, and the Shape of the American Novel, Part 3

Dreiser’s Hortense Briggs and Rand’s Rita Eksler are both femmes fatales, but whereas Dreiser seethes with resentment that such a girl exist

May 7, 2018
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Her Better Judgment: Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, and the Shape of the American Novel, Part 2

Part 2—Esta Griffiths and Lydia Argounova

Apr 30, 2018
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Her Better Judgment: Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, and the Shape of the American Novel, Part 1

It is difficult to think of two American authors more antithetical than Ayn Rand and Theodore Dreiser. According to his 1965 biographer, W..

Apr 23, 2018
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3 min
Reason Enough

Ayn Rand polarizes. There are those who declare that everything about Ayn Rand has already been decided.

Mar 12, 2018
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