Happy 105th Birthday, Ayn Rand!<http://reason.com/blog/2010/02/02/happy-105th-birthday-ayn-rand>
Katherine Mangu-Ward <http://reason.com/people/katherine-mangu-ward> | February 2, 2010 Ayn Rand: She's hot. She's sexy. She's dead. But if she wasn't, she'd be 105 years old today! Over a century after Alisa Rosenbaum was born in St. Petersburg, she's bigger than ever. A Twitter meme today suggests<http://www.google.com/search?q=ayn+rand+birthday&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=RIM&tbs=rltm:1&tbo=u&ei=wFRoS7dSjemUB93J3YYI&sa=X&oi=realtime_result_group_more_results_link&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CCgQ5QUwBA> celebrating her birthday by "kicking a homeless person in her honor." But that's totally unfair to Rand, since even the people who only read the dirty bits in *The Fountainhead* know, Rand would prefer that we celebrate by kicking the person who most perfectly embodies Objectivist values: [image: par-tay!] For a more G-rated option (well, PG-13 anyway) why not enjoy a sampling from *Reason*'s Rand archive in her honor?: “She’s Back! Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans radical enough for capitalism?<http://reason.com/archives/2009/11/09/ayn-rand-is-back>” by Brian Doherty “The Ayn and Only: Cult-empress or great thinker<http://reason.com/archives/2009/11/13/the-ayn-and-only>?” by Katherine Mangu-Ward “Will Everyone Please Stop Freaking Out Over Ayn Rand?!?<http://reason.com/archives/2009/11/10/will-everyone-please-stop-frea>” by Peter Bagge “Ready for Her Close-Up: Re-examining Ayn Rand’s place in American intellectual and cultural life<http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/07/ready-for-her-close-up>” by Nick Gillespie “What’s Wrong With Ayn Rand: The goddess of reason wasn’t so reasonable<http://reason.com/archives/2009/11/06/whats-wrong-with-ayn-rand>” by Shikha Dalmia “Why Ayn Rand is Hot Again: The unconservative Ayn Rand and her relationship to the American right<http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/10/why-ayn-rand-is-hot-again>” by Brian Doherty "Ayn Rand at 100: Loved, hated, and always controversial, the best-selling author of *The Fountainhead* and *Atlas Shrugged* is more relevant than ever<http://reason.com/archives/2005/03/01/ayn-rand-at-100>" by Cathy Young Watch “Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand’s Legacy” below: Go here <http://www.youtube.com/user/ReasonTV#g/c/5DD8AB31C88BE88D> to Reason.tv’s entire series "Radicals for Capitalism: Celebrating the Legacy of Ayn Rand." Help Reason celebrate its next 40 years. Donate Now!<https://www.reason.com/donatenow/donate.php> StumbleUpon<http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2F02%2Fhappy-105th-birthday-ayn-rand&title=Happy+105th+Birthday%2C+Ayn+Rand%21> Digg<http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2F02%2Fhappy-105th-birthday-ayn-rand&title=Happy+105th+Birthday%2C+Ayn+Rand%21> Reddit<http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2F02%2Fhappy-105th-birthday-ayn-rand&title=Happy+105th+Birthday%2C+Ayn+Rand%21> Twitter<http://twitter.com/home?status=Happy+105th+Birthday%2C+Ayn+Rand%21+http%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2F02%2Fhappy-105th-birthday-ayn-rand> Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2F02%2Fhappy-105th-birthday-ayn-rand> -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
