America Wants to Negotiate a Ceasefire in Lebanon. But It Doesn’t Want to Make Peace
Instead, it’s committed to reviving past failures.
November 21, 2024
Ayn Rand, Russian Jewish Writer and Pioneer of “Capitalist Realism”
Atlas shlepped.
More than 40 years after her death, Ayn Rand remains an influential figure among American libertarians, responsible for changing a set of ideas about political economy into a general philosophical and ethical system. Born in St. Petersburg in 1905 as Alisa Rosenbaum, she is rarely thought of as a Russian Jewish writer, but that is what she was. Gary Saul Morson notes, however, that Rand “never identified with Judaism and after she arrived in America in 1926 assiduously avoided mentioning it.”
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The U.S. Should Stop Sanctioning Israel
Treating an ally the way it treats no other democracy.
The Pope Turns on Israel
Francis has called for an inquiry into the possibility of genocide.
Ayn Rand, Russian Jewish Writer and Pioneer of “Capitalist Realism”
Atlas shlepped.
A Mormon University’s Star Jewish Quarterback
Jack Retzlaff, “BYJew.”