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Know Your Enemy: Ayn Rand Against the World
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Know Your Enemy: Ayn Rand Against the World Know Your Enemy: Ayn Rand Against the World Matt and Sam talk to historian Jennifer Burns about the fascinating life, and brutal philosophy, of Ayn Rand.
Ayn Rand in 1961 (Raimondo Borea/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images)Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.
An atheist, a radical for capitalism, a caricature of a greedy libertarian, a best-selling novelist, a difficult partner and passionate lover, and the self-proclaimed greatest philosopher since Aristotle: Ayn Rand was many things, and we talk about almost all of them in this epic episode.
Rand remains a controversial figure whose ideas permeate our culture and continue to inspire some of the most consequential (and least appealing) political figures in the United States.
Further Reading:Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)— Atlas Shrugged (1957)— We the Living (1936)Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009)— Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (2023)Whittaker Chambers, Big Sister Is Watching You, National Review (1957)Murray Rothbard, The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult (1972)Mary Gaitskill, Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991)Lisa Duggan, Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed (2019)— Ayn Rand and the Cruel Heart of Neoliberalism, Dissent (2019)Adam Curtis, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)Listen again:Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times (2023)