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Shocking Rejection: Teen AI App Prodigy with 4.0 GPA Denied by 15 Top Universities

Bitcoin World 04 Apr 2025
X Marks the Spot ... Ayn Rand and College Rejection ... Tan humorously confessed that his own application essays, heavily influenced by Ayn Rand’s philosophy after reading ‘The Fountainhead,’ might have contributed to his initial setbacks.
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One Beijing man’s quest to keep cooking - and connecting with Americans - on camera

Hindustan Times 04 Apr 2025
By Kevin Krolicki and Josh Arslan ... “So easy!” is a favourite ... “Open the fire!”. A fan of rapper Eminem, whose off-camera bookshelf includes Ayn Rand and David Foster Wallace, Yu was worried at first about how his limited spoken English would travel ... ....
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One Fine Show: ‘Tamara de Lempicka’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

New York Observer 04 Apr 2025
Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of Ira P., 1930; oil on panel, private collection ... Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter. Sign Up ... There’s just something so American about a work that could be used to illustrate the cover of an Ayn Rand novel ... ... .
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John Stossel: America needs more immigrants, not fewer

Daily Bulletin 03 Apr 2025
President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants — 11,000 in February ... Score ... 4.1% ... In addition, “Every serious economic study,” says Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute, shows immigrants “create more jobs than they destroy ... I like it ... .
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CEOs under the Trump administration explode the myth of plutocracy

The Hill 02 Apr 2025
According to a popular view on the political left, businessmen want to control the government and our lives in service of their profits ... in philosophy and formerly a professor, is a fellow and director of content at the Ayn Rand Institute ... ....
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How the Republican war on empathy turned America into a playground for sociopaths

Raw Story 01 Apr 2025
Ayn Rand’s novels have informed libertarian Republicans like former Speaker of the House of Representatives and current Fox News board member Paul Ryan, who required interns to read her books when they joined his staff.
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Review: Does Kieran Culkin Close the Deal in ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’?

New York Observer 01 Apr 2025
Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glen Ross EMILIO MADRID ... the more you curse, the smarter you are ... Sign Up ... This scene ought to crackle with homosocial glee and a backwash of bile as we, like Lingk, swallow Roma’s dollar-store Ayn Rand jive ... .
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Trump’s ever-widening sadism will undermine his movement

The Los Angeles Times 31 Mar 2025
Here’s the thing about Donald Trump 2.0 ... Don’t come here ... Spearheading this effort is Elon Musk, the president’s cost-cutter who is completing his metamorphosis from socially awkward PayPal co-founder to full-fledged Ayn Rand villain ... Economist F.A.
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The hateful rhetoric against immigrants is nothing new

Press Telegram 31 Mar 2025
“They are criminals,” “they are invading our country,” “they bring disease,” “they are eating the dogs,” “they are changing the culture.” When you read these words, you immediately know who “they” are. the immigrants ... As Ayn Rand once put it.
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The Ugly Fight Over Ayn Rand’s Estate

The Atlantic 30 Mar 2025
If not for the open casket, Ayn Rand’s funeral might have been confused for a party ... Heller’s biography, Ayn Rand and the World She Made ... Peter Maass on Ayn Rand in Somalia] ... The Philosophy of Ayn Rand ... Meeting Ayn Rand on the Las Vegas strip].
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What book would Mark Field take to a desert island to alleviate the boredom with ...

The Daily Mail 28 Mar 2025
What Book... Politican, Mark Field. . are you reading now? ... ... . ... ... Political friends have tried to persuade me to read Ayn Rand’s libertarian novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, but it has always been an exercise in wading through treacle ... .
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The most important part of the ocean you’ve never heard of

The Los Angeles Times 28 Mar 2025
The question now ... Nevertheless, seagrasses are far less protected than other offshore areas ... She said ... The founders of these micronations — in the 2000s quite a few dot-com tycoons — were usually men of means, steeped in Ayn Rand and Thomas Hobbes ... .
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Social Security needs protection from Trump, as disastrous acting commissioner shows

The Los Angeles Times 25 Mar 2025
That's because, disastrous as it has been, there's one mitigating factor ... The alarm is widespread — and justified ... Lutnick's dismissal of the effect of delayed payments on millions of Americans was so crass and cavalier it would make Ayn Rand blush ... .
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A look into Reid Hoffman's front-row seat on AI: 'I concluded AI was not going ...

Business Insider 24 Mar 2025
FREDERIC J ... The following is a book excerpt ... "And I'm absolutely certain I saw him as a libertarian wacko who seemed to have sprung out of Ayn Rand's book, 'The Fountainhead,' fully formed."Gary Rivlin released a new book, "AI Valley ... From the book ... ....
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The Dark Enlightenment: the Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction

Scheerpost 24 Mar 2025
/ Common Dreams ... Paul Krugman recommends a psychiatrist weigh in; Dr. Bandy X ... “Is Destruction the Point?” ... There’s an actual ideology behind all this, and it isn’t the old-fashioned Ayn Rand libertarianism that was such a rage during the Reagan era ... .

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