2021-02-28

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Knowing Better

Free-market Capitalism was not always part of the American way of life. How did Libertarianism make its way into the political mainstream?

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Thanks to JJ McCullough for explaining Conservatism and Reagan.

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Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed - Lisa Duggan (2019)

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Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (1957)

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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan - Rick Perlstein (2014)

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The Fountainhead (1949) - https://amzn.to/3o5C25G

Atlas Shrugged Part I (2011) - https://amzn.to/3qEqfNl

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http://www.zompist.com/libertos.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/21/948926995/keep-it-classical-says-trump-order-on-federal-architecture

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28605/promoting-beautiful-federal-civic-architecture

https://www.nationalreview.com/2005/01/big-sister-watching-you-whittaker-chambers/

https://davidfrum.com/article/were-the-founding-fathers-libertarians

https://web.archive.org/web/20140115095632/http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ar_libertarianism_qa

https://abbeysbooks.medium.com/review-snowpiercer-a-reading-through-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged-dd613e78f599

https://www.atlassociety.org/post/celebrity-ayn-rand-fan-ronald-reagan

http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Political_skeptic/Neoliberalism/Randism/index.shtml

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/ayn-rand-and-the-cruel-heart-of-neoliberalism

https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

http://www.liberalviewer.com/AynRand.htm

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Video Credits -

The Speech Every 2015 College Grad Needs to Hear - PragerU - https://youtu.be/Vfl4BGbMxoQ

Ayn Rand - What Is Capitalism? (full course) - Ayn Rand Institute - https://youtu.be/EmcmauM78FE

The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand - Ayn Rand Institute - https://youtu.be/lHl2PqwRcY0

The ideal man: Ayn Rand interviewed by James Day - Atlas Society - https://youtu.be/1ixclrtypKo

Ayn Rand on Donahue 1979 - https://youtu.be/WqpwTAzdPUI

Ayn Rand Interviewed By Phil Donahue (1980) - https://youtu.be/1ZqKpfVW0i0

Ayn Rand's Last Public Lecture: The Sanction of the Victims - Libertarianism.org - https://youtu.be/7XiBU8geK08

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/reagan-quotes-speeches/inaugural-address-2/

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Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand" by Nathaniel Branden, 1989 p. 255-256

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Produced with the Assistance of Rozarah

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