Since Rand's death, others have developed and applied her ideas in their own work.

David Sidorsky, a professor of moral and political philosophy at Columbia University, says Rand's work is " outside the mainstream " and is more of an ideological movement than a well-grounded philosophy.

Supporters of Rand's work recognize the phenomenon, but attribute it to the loss of youthful idealism and inability to resist social pressures for intellectual conformity.

Heinlein made quick work of altruism as a false virtue in Stranger in a Strange Land and mentioned John Galt — the hero in Rand's " Atlas Shrugged "-- as a heroic archetype in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

There is a long history of missionary work in Hants County, such as the work of Silas Tertius Rand's work on a reserve near Hantsport.

Rand's descriptions of Roark's buildings were inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, such as Fallingwater, a residence he designed in the 1930s.

" According to renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman, it was Rand's work that " brought architecture into the public's focus for the first time ," and he believes that The Fountainhead was not only influential among 20th century architects, it " was one, first, front and center in the life of every architect who was a modern architect.

Susan Brownmiller, in her 1975 work Against Our Will, denounced what she called " Rand's philosophy of rape ", for portraying women as wanting " humiliation at the hands of a superior man ".

Among critics who have addressed it, some consider The Fountainhead to be Rand's best novel, such as philosopher Mark Kingwell, who described The Fountainhead as " Rand's best work – which is not to say it is good.

" These theoreticians would have a lasting impression on Rand's work ; in a 1995 interview with Michael Kroeger discussing, among other topics, the importance of Dewey's Art as Experience, Rand elaborates on Dewey's appeal:

However, Silverberg stated that he did not know of Rand's work until after his own was published, and that his aim in depicting such a society was completely different from hers.

According to Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, Verity kept a passage from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged on his desk, including the line " How well you do your work.

The organization continues to sponsor scholarly work, publishes a website and a political-cultural magazine, and puts on conferences and seminars where scholars and fans of Rand's work meet and mingle.

As work resumed on the play, Rand's relationship with Woods quickly soured as he demanded changes that she later derided as " a junk heap of worn, irrelevant melodramatic devices ".

Concurrent with Jeffery's largely theoretical work was Oscar Newman and George Rand's empirical study of the crime-environment connection conducted in the early 1970s.

" The organization's name is a reference to Rand's work, Atlas Shrugged.

The next logical step of Rand's argument is that the audience of any particular work cannot help but come away with some sense of a philosophical message, colored by his or her own personal values, ingrained into their psyche by whatever degree of emotional impact the work holds for them.

" However, historian James Baker contrasted the book with Rand's approach in her book Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, most of which was a written as a single work.

Nathaniel Branden, a young Canadian student who had been greatly inspired by Rand's work, became a close confidant and encouraged Rand to expand her philosophy into a formal movement.

Machan has developed Rand's contextual conception of human knowledge ( while also drawing on the insights of J. L. Austin and Gilbert Harman ) in works such as Objectivity ( 2004 ), and David Kelley has explicated Rand's epistemological ideas in works such as The Evidence of the Senses ( 1986 ) and A Theory of Abstraction ( 2001 ).

An author who focuses on Rand's ethics, Tara Smith, stays closer to Rand's original ideas in such works as Moral Rights and Political Freedom ( 1995 ), Viable Values ( 2000 ), and Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics ( 2006 ).

As Rand's coffin is about to be interred in the family mausoleum, they unanimously agree on " Chauncey Gardiner ".

While that earlier novel had been based partly on people and events from Rand's experiences, the new novel was to focus on the less-familiar world of architecture.

Rand's posthumously published working notes for the novel, which were not known at the time of her debate with feminists, indicate that when she started working on the book in 1936 she conceived of Roark as feeling that Dominique " belonged to him ", that " he did not greatly care " about her consent and that " he would be justified " in raping her.

Dewey is an important source for Rand's underlying sentiment in graphic design ; on page one of Rand's groundbreaking Thoughts on Design, the author begins drawing lines from Dewey's philosophy to the need for " functional-aesthetic perfection " in modern art.

" This quote seems to refer to Rand's apparent blindness in his attempts to become " steel " or " cuendillar ," and his new enlightened view of life after contemplation on Dragonmount ( Lews Therin's grave ), and also is the quote that Tuon was referring to.

When he spies the Dragon markings on Rand's arms, he leaves with the Shaido very angry and very quickly.

Jillette is an atheist, libertarian ( he has stated that he may consider himself to be an anarcho-capitalist ), and skeptic, as well as an adherent to Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy, as stated on his Penn Says podcast.

Rand's influence on LaVeyan Satanism is very apparent in the Nine Satanic Statements, to the point where some, including Schreck, assert that the Statements are simply unacknowledged paraphrase of Rand's thoughts.

Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism is a major influence on the party.

The lists below provide information on Ayn Rand's major works and collections.

* Ayn Rand's Marginalia: Her Critical Comments on the Writings of Over 20 Authors ( 1995 ).

When Ayn Rand's novel " The Fountainhead " was published, Heinlein was very favorably impressed, as quoted in " Grumbles ...".

* Howard Roark, protagonist of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead

From Rand's working notes for her novel The Fountainhead, it is clear that the character Lois Cook in that book was intended as a caricature of Stein.

Part of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead is set at Clayton.

In the end DeMille rejected Rand's script, and the actual film followed Murphy's original idea, but Rand's version contained elements that she would later use in The Fountainhead.

The same year also saw the publication of Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine and Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead, and the three women have been referred to as the founding mothers of the American libertarian movement with the publication of these works.

After the success of Rand's novel The Fountainhead, a revised edition of Anthem was published in the US in 1946 by Pamphleteers, Inc., a small libertarian-oriented publishing house owned by Rand's friends Leonard Read and William C. Mullendore.

* Ellsworth Toohey, a character in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead

Cuban is an admirer of author / philosopher Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

About Rand's novel The Fountainhead, he said: " was incredibly motivating to me.

The other was a college scholarship contest for high-school students based on writing an essay about Rand's novel The Fountainhead.

* Wynand Building ( New York City )-the creation of the uncompromising, objectivist architect Howard Roark, it features in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead ( 1949 ).

As a sign of the political tenor of the times, The God of the Machine was published in the same year as Rand's novel The Fountainhead and Rose Wilder Lane's The Discovery of Freedom.

* Howard Roark, the protagonist of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

* Caleb Bradley, a corporate swindler in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead

* Steven Mallory is a fictional young sculptor who is hired by and becomes a close friend of Architect Howard Roark in Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, The Fountainhead

Although the archetype of the Randian hero appears in Rand's earliest work ( notably in Night of January 16ths Bjorn Faulkner and We The Livings Leo Kovalensky ), its best known examples appear in Rand's mature work, specifically in the novella Anthem ( 1938 ) and the novels The Fountainhead ( 1943 ) and Atlas Shrugged ( 1957 ).