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Atlas Shrugged is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Atlas Shrugged.
http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/when-alan-met-ayn-atlas-shr...
That pill-popping, boy-crazy nincompoop Ayn Rand has got a lot to answer for.
Movie Buzz Your favorite book from 10th grade is coming to the big screen. Libertarians rejoice! Part one (the movie's been split into four parts) will open April 15th. Who is John Galt, right?
Business Buzz The polarizing philosopher and dating-site-sponsor has all the solutions to your economic woes. Or she is to blame! It depends on whether you believe in Free Trade with a capital FT, courtesy of Alan Greenspan. You could also believe that she is responsible for inflating the egos of all the day traders who got us into this mess, but that's not really a solution. So let's go with Option A.
http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/11/20tucker.html
Ayn Rand's Objectivist tract gets updated for our current financial predicament. It's also more readable than Ayn herself.
http://nymag.com/news/features/artifact/51814/
For the discerning single person who feels that Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the most important book ever written, there's TheAtlasSphere.com, an Objectivist dating site. NY Mag has some truly amazing excerpts from user profiles. Who wouldn't want to date a guy who says, “I only kiss those who deserve, and so far I have only encountered one girl who did”?