https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/05/27/atlas-vlogged/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:42:03 -0400<![CDATA[In order to help pass the time while waiting for the cinematic debut of Atlas Shrugged in theaters on Friday, here&#8217;s my video interview from last year with Jennifer Burns, the author of the best-selling late 2009 book on Ayn Rand&#8217;s remarkably contentious history with the American right. We explored Rand&#8217;s resurgence in 2009 with the Tea Party, who can pick and choose which elements of Rand&#8217;s Objectivist philosophy they agree with in a way that Rand would have found anathema while she was still living. We also discussed Rand&#8217;s tempestuous relationship with both the right and the left during the 1940s through the early 1970s, including her look at what she described as JFK&#8217;s &#8220;Fascist New Frontier&#8221; in 1962. Plus some thoughts on what the Fountainhead had to say about Rand&#8217;s take on modernist aesthetics, and the socialistic milieu in which they originally emerged, along with clips of the 1949 movie starring Garry Cooper.]]>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:28:29 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2011/04/14/atlas-vlogged-n146093