• • Paul Ryan’s worldview 
Tom Allen, OUPblog (Oxford University Press) Atlas Shrugged  |The Fountainhead  |Egoism  |Individualism  |Paul Ryan  | Paul Ryan is a disciple of Ayn Rand.He credits the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as the person most responsible for inspiring him to get into politics. Rand’s celebration of heroic entrepreneurs and demonization of government and bureaucrats finds expression today in the Republican elevation of “job creators” as our indispensable driving economic force, people who must be fed a steady diet of tax cuts to be productive.   Published: 2012-10-11