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Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz Jan 2011

Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz

Department of English Publications

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Bolshevik For Capitalism: Ayn Rand & Soviet Socialist Realism, Peter Jebsen Jan 2011

Bolshevik For Capitalism: Ayn Rand & Soviet Socialist Realism, Peter Jebsen

CMC Senior Theses

Since the late 1950s, Russian-American novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand has been “the ultimate gateway drug to life on the right.” Her philosophy – “Objectivism” – combined militant atheism, libertarian natural rights, and a philosophical commitment to what she called “the virtue of selfishness,” and earned her the admiration of such luminaries as Alan Greenspan: a remarkable achievement for an immigrant woman who learned to speak English in her late 20s. What is less-often observed is that Rand’s work, especially her mature novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), bear a close stylistic resemblance to the Soviet Socialist Realist …


Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2010

Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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