• • • Ryan’s Hero Ayn Rand Sneered at Disabled Children: Commentary 
Craig Seligman, Bloomberg Atlas Shrugged  |The Fountainhead  |Paul Ryan  |The Fountainhead movie  |Image  |Syndicated  | With the ascent of Paul Ryan, the chain-smoking, Russian-accented, flinty-hearted figure of Ayn Rand has once again elbowed her way into the American conversation. Will her name come up during the debate between the vice-presidential candidates on Thursday? So far, most of the talk has focused on her 1957 doorstop of a political novel, “Atlas Shrugged.” But it’s sent me back to an earlier book, “The Fountainhead,” which (like most of her work) has never been out of print since it was published in 1943.   Published: 2012-10-07