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News in-depthSam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried’s fate is sealed by his own words
...Widge Devaney, a former federal prosecutor who has appeared in front of Kaplan, said the judge’s comments suggested he viewed Bankman-Fried as somebody with a cynical “Ayn Rand view of the world” who “needs...
March 28, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
The Visionaries — the women who fought totalitarianism with their minds
...Three are pretty well known: Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, and Ayn Rand all went on to have brilliant intellectual careers....
July 27, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Retail & Consumer industry
End of family ownership looms for sandwich maker Subway after $9bn deal
...It is named after Howard Roark, the protagonist of Ayn Rand’s libertarian novel The Fountainhead, and is known for turnaround efforts that focus on the use of franchises for expansion....
August 24, 2023
Edward Luce
Beware Elon Musk’s warped libertarianism
...Many of them subscribe to the outlook on life of Ayn Rand’s epic individualist John Galt, the fictional character in Atlas Shrugged, whose selfishness is presented as heroic....
May 24, 2023
Rutherford Hall
It’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and we’re watching it live
...Ayn Rand would see this for what it is. This is Atlas Shrugged and it’s happening in real time. But we need to reframe the debate....
May 15, 2023
Janan Ganesh
Stop making fun of managers
...For the libertarian right, reared on Ayn Rand, the manager is a “bureaucrat”, a dead weight on those with vision and animal spirits....
February 24, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
FT Magazine
No taxes. No welfare. Welcome to libertarian paradise island
...The fantasy of a remote hideout full of the like-minded has its ideal in Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged with its mountain hideaway Galt’s Gulch and, in more recent years, in the speculative plans of...
April 21, 2022
Global Economy
Fixing bank runs (sort of) wins the Nobel prize
...Alternatively, what about letting the wildfire burn through the system in 2008, Ayn Rand style, and then picking up the charred pieces of Freddie and Fannie afterwards?...
October 10, 2022
Paul Marshall
Economic consensus is crumbling, but the Bank of England has not got the memo
...But the more libertarian new British government is too influenced by Ayn Rand for that. However, the bigger problem for Liz Truss’s government is the Bank of England....
September 26, 2022
FT Schools
Politics class: Tories take an unconservative approach to conservatism
...Ensure that you refer to his ideas together with those of at least one of the other specified thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, Edmund Burke, Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick....
June 18, 2022
FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
Who is Jack Dorsey?
...A silent homage, if you will, to the mysterious hero at the centre of libertarian-hero Ayn Rand’s epic (and in some people’s opinion somewhat shitty) novel Atlas Shrugged. Consider the evidence....
November 30, 2021
Russia
US-born businessman jailed in Russia on fraud charge
...The charge against Meyer, who moved to Russia in 1999 to open a museum in honour of libertarian firebrand Ayn Rand before going into business, stem from a long-running shareholder dispute that destroyed...
December 9, 2021
FirstFT
FirstFT: Macron accuses Le Pen of dependence on Putin
...It has no income tax, no inheritance tax, no capital gains tax, no VAT and no employment laws of any kind. But is it the Ayn Rand-style haven it’s cracked up to be?...
April 21, 2022
Sujeet Indap
Warren’s anti-‘looting’ crusade is about fundamental accountability Premium content
...novels of Ayn Rand....
December 10, 2021
Elaine Moore
Need relief from the stress of screen time? There’s an app for that
...US journalist Fredrik deBoer wrote last year that the self-care industry’s focus on the individual improving their life was akin to Ayn Rand laundered through yoga memes....
December 14, 2021
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Letter
Letter: A US ousting recalls a conservative cause célèbre
...In doing so, she channelled Ayn Rand’s protagonist Howard Roark, that erstwhile cause célèbre once espoused by American conservatives....
May 16, 2021
ReviewEconomics books
Samuelson and Friedman — a rivalry that echoes down to the present
...Meanwhile, Alan Greenspan, supposedly a disciple of the libertarian Ayn Rand, was endlessly tinkering, adjusting interest rates in homeopathic doses as chair of the Federal Reserve under presidents Reagan...
October 14, 2021
Camilla Cavendish
Sajid Javid must act to save an NHS on its last legs
...Six years ago, I watched him present Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead to a parliamentary film society....
July 2, 2021
Letter
Letter: Rand took welfare while attacking big government
...In his letter “A writer who doesn’t deserve the hypocrite tag” (FT Weekend, August 29), Donald Altschiller tries to build a case for Ayn Rand....
September 1, 2020
FT Alphaville
Further reading
...Elsewhere on Wednesday: – Ayn Rand Institute takes bailout. So do Sub Pop. – Cashless payments and the pandemic. – ECB on why euro should go global. – Huawei in Germany (Handelsblatt, $)....
July 8, 2020
ReviewFT Books Essay
After the Fall and Last Best Hope — mourning in America
...He describes Thomas Friedman’s book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, which extolled the triumph of 1990s US-led globalisation, as “Das Kapital for Smart America”, in much the same way as Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged...
July 22, 2021
Letter
Letter: A writer who doesn’t deserve the hypocrite tag
...Ayn Rand, the author of the perennial bestseller The Fountainhead who also wrote the anthology The Virtue of Selfishness may seem uniquely immune to such a charge....
August 28, 2020
Jonathan Guthrie
Get ready for the $4.5tn takeover
...Sadly for Mr Kilcoyne, the works of libertarian philosophers like Ayn Rand are among the chattels going up in smoke....
March 25, 2020
US politics & policy
Political insiders benefited from US small business rescue plan
...state Madeleine Albright, the Ohio and Florida chapters of the Democratic party and two conservative groups that have staked their reputation on opposing big government spending: the Ayn Rand Institute...
July 8, 2020
James Kirkup
Tory free marketeers know which way the wind is blowing
...Mr Javid’s pragmatism is most visible — a devotee of Ayn Rand, the chancellor now champions industrial strategy and a higher minimum wage....
January 31, 2020

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