Word: ayn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Previously called the Harvard-Radcliffe Association for Rational individualism, the group for the past two years has consisted largely of ten graduate students studying libertarian philosophy, especially Ayn Rand...
...tentative name of a two-year-old study group in libertarian philosophy- hopes to unite followers of Ayn Rand and supporters of Noam Chomsky under a libertarian banner...
...became impossible for me. I saw Jeff's group needed a business guy and I bargained for a column." Duke has in fact done a competent job as advertising manager, in exchange for his page-three column "Proselytyzer for Capitalism: The Libertarian Viewpoint" where he promotes the ideas of Ayn Rand at least every other week. Duke said that the only two faculty letters to the HarBus this year have both been in response to his column. Loftin was taken on as business manager, through Duke's influence...
...California, as elsewhere, many disaffected rightists turned to Ayn Rand; whose objectivist teachings elevated capitalism from economics to religion. Rand shares Buckley's fear, if not his paranoia, about communism; but she philosophizes that communism can be defeated only by capitalism-the rational, selfish, non-altruistic, objective relationship of free people in a free enterprise system. Buckley and his followers, she feels, are traitors to capitalism and are the antithesis of all the qualities a capitalist needs; i. e., Buckleyites are irrational, romantic, superstitious, altruistic, and too confused by their worship of "tradition" to be objective...