This week, the media decided that the juiciest line of inquiry about the GOP’s newly minted vice presidential nominee, Paul Ryan, was how deep his allegiance was to the late novelist Ayn Rand. Brooke talks to Slate political reporter Dave Weigel about Ryan’s relationship to Rand.
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On the Media did a story on Ayn Rand a few years ago. They did this new piece for this weeks show but they also replayed the older piece they had done.
Here is the older piece:
Object Lesson
With the announcement of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential running mate this week, the philosophies of author Ayn Rand are once again part of the political discourse. In this piece that originally ran in 2008, Brooke looks at the enduring legacy of the original Objectivist.
http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/aug/17/object-lesson/
Atlas Shrugged Part 2 will be
Atlas Shrugged Part 2 will be in theaters October 12th, 2012.