• • • Atlas Shrugged Part II Producer: Ayn Rand Institute ‘Joining the Ranks of Society’ 
Jordan Bloom, The American Conservative - State of the Union Ayn Rand Institute  |Atlas Shrugged  |The Virtue of Selfishness  |Egoism  |Leonard Peikoff  |Yaron Brook  | Last week I wrote about the disturbingly bloodthirsty Ayn Rand Institute, and the rigid doctrinal pronouncements that occasionally come from their intellectual figureheads such as Leonard Peikoff. As the heir to Rand’s estate, Peikoff also owned the rights to film adaptations of her novels, which he guarded as jealously as the novelist herself for many years. He eventually sold them for more than $1 million to his one-time friend John Aglialoro, producer of both Atlas Shrugged movies, the second of which comes out next month.   Published: 2012-09-20