Ayn Rand, the author of the best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, has until very recently had little attention in academe -- despite her millions of fans. Now, scholars in a variety of fields -- philosophy, political theory, literary criticism, and women's studies -- are starting to examine Rand and to take her seriously as a thinker. Is this new attention long overdue or a fad that is likely to pass? What does it say about academe that so popular and serious an author would have been the subject of so little scholarly research until now? For further information, see this background story:
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