1. ARI scholar Jason Rheins said that he hopes Donald Trump has a stroke and calls conservative Republicans Nazis. The ARI party line is that Trump is bad and Republicans a mixed bag, so this is rather extreme.
2. ARI scholar Mike Mazza wrote an interesting article Why can't Professional Philosophers Get Rand Rights? Mazza is correct that many philosophers don't understand particularly well, probably in large part that they disagree with most of her ideas. (Rand had a hard time understanding people she disagreed with as well.) On the other hand. he writes as if disagreeing with Rand equals misunderstanding her. His solution is to read more ARI affiliated authors.
3. There is a new self-help style book out: 101 Days to Exploring Individualism; A Guided Journal Inspired by Ayn Rand's Philosophy.
4. One Vladimir Lincoln Armstrong published the Kindle book, Debunking Ayn Rand: The Truth About Money Creation Or Why Work Doesn't Create Money. It's a small book which claims that Rand believed workers create money and gives reasons why this isn't so (such as The Federal Reserve and fiat money). He doesn't document his claim about Rand's view of money and I don't think even her staunchest supporters think she had much to say about monetary theory. There is no mention of Objectivist influenced economists who have written about money such as George Reisman and Richard Salsman.
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