<a href='http://www.amazon.com/Ayn-Rand-World-Made-ebook/dp/B002T18VDG/?tag=prometheusunbound-20' title='Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller' ><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="196" height="300" src="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325-196x300.jpg" class="post_image attachment-medium" alt="Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller" style="float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em;" title="Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller" srcset="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325-196x300.jpg 196w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px" /></a> <a class="featured_image_link" href="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/2013/01/14/the-libertarian-tradition-podcast-ayn-rand-and-the-early-libertarian-movement/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="459" src="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller" srcset="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325.jpg 300w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325-196x300.jpg 196w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a> <a class="featured_image_link" href="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/2013/01/14/the-libertarian-tradition-podcast-ayn-rand-and-the-early-libertarian-movement/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="459" src="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller" srcset="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325.jpg 300w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325-196x300.jpg 196w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a> <a class="featured_image_link" href="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/2013/01/14/the-libertarian-tradition-podcast-ayn-rand-and-the-early-libertarian-movement/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="459" src="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller" srcset="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325.jpg 300w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ayn-Rand-and-the-World-She-Made-by-Anne-C.-Heller-e1358207390325-196x300.jpg 196w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a> <p><em>In <a class="vt-p" title="Ayn Rand and the Early Libertarian Movement" href="http://mises.org/media/4471/Ayn-Rand-and-the-Early-Libertarian-Movement">this January 12, 2010 episode</a> of the</em> <a class="vt-p" title="The Libertarian Tradition Podcast" href="http://mises.org/media/categories/208/The-Libertarian-Tradition">Libertarian Tradition</a> <em>podcast series, part of the Mises Institute's online media library, <a class="vt-p" title="Jeff Riggenbach" href="http://prometheus-unbound.org/author/jeffriggenbach/">Jeff Riggenbach</a> discusses the important role played by novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand in the early libertarian movement</em><em>.</em></p> <p><strong>Editor's Note:</strong> A transcript is unavailable. This early episode was never turned into a <a class="vt-p" title="Mises Daily" href="http://mises.org/daily/"><em>Mises Daily</em></a> article most of the others.</p> <p>Here is a brief summary, however:</p> <p>In light of then recently released books on Ayn Rand — Jennifer Burns's <a class="vt-p" title="Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns" href="http://www.amazon.com/Goddess-Market-American-Right-ebook/dp/B002SAUBVS/?tag=prometheusunbound-20"><em>Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right</em></a> and Anne C. Heller's <a class="vt-p" title="Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller" href="http://www.amazon.com/Ayn-Rand-World-Made-ebook/dp/B002T18VDG/?tag=prometheusunbound-20"><em>Ayn Rand and the World She Made</em></a> — Riggenbach discusses Rand's role in the early libertarian movement. Along the way he highlights Heller's defense of the quality of Rand's writing against mainstream literary critics. He goes on to argue that Heller's book is the better of the two and explains what mars Burns's book. He plays a couple of clips of Rand herself explaining why she and her philosophy of Objectivism are not conservative, and challenges the coherence of Burns's conception of the American Right.</p> <p>If you're unfamiliar with Ayn Rand and her importance in the libertarian tradition, this episode offers a good primer on the subject as well as on what differentiates libertarianism and conservatism.</p>