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Transcript: Commentary: Influence of Ayn Rand still felt today
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ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
02-02-2005
Commentary: Influence of Ayn Rand still felt today
Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
ALEX CHADWICK, host:
This is DAY TO DAY from NPR News. I'm Alex Chadwick.
People with a me-first attitude risk being called selfish, except by followers of the writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, who would consider them virtuous. Ayn Rand became an intellectual celebrity in Cold War America by espousing the moral superiority of self-interest over self-sacrifice. She remains controversial more than 20 years after her death.
Ayn Rand was born 100 years ago today. For the Wednesday DAY TO DAY book report, here's the editor in chief, Nick Gillespie, of the libertarian ...