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What Paul Ryan Learned from Ayn Rand

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Paul Ryan is a Randian, though he’s now distancing himself from her. Biographer Anne C. Heller considers their connection.

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“It is true that fiction is a much more powerful weapon to sell ideas than nonfiction,” Rand wrote when she was just beginning to construct the plot of her capitalist blockbuster Atlas

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