• • • Ayn Rand: Decide for Yourself 
Nicholas Marquiss, The Undercurrent The Fountainhead  |Paul Ryan  |Image  | Mitt Romney recently selected Paul Ryan as his running mate. There has now been a great deal of media buzz about the fact that Ryan once said that the philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand was a major influence on his intellectual life. Though some of this attention has been accurate, a number of bloggers and pundits have portrayed Rand as a one-dimensional pariah who believed that the poor should be sacrificed to the rich.   Published: 2012-09-20