• • • Yaron Brook on the Ayn Rand Institute's Newfound Ecumenism 
Jordan Bloom, The American Conservative - State of the Union Atlas Shrugged movie  |Ayn Rand Institute  |Atlas Shrugged  |Leonard Peikoff  |Yaron Brook  | “Atlas Shrugged Part II” opened this weekend, with box office receipts just shy of its predecessor’s take of $1.7 million, even though this installment debuted at more than three times as many theaters. Perhaps that’s an incomplete measurement, however, because the film’s producers have been counting on support from right-wing activist networks and institutional players. [....] That cooperation is a notable development in itself because the Ayn Rand Institute, whose founder Leonard Peikoff sold the rights to the movie, was at one time notoriously parochial, opposed to both libertarianism and the GOP.   Published: 2012-10-15