PUBLISHED REVIEWS

MICHAEL RUST, INSIGHT (1-8 JANUARY 1996)

INSIGHT PUBLISHED ITS TOP TEN LIST OF 1995 BOOKS OF INTEREST TO CONSERVATIVES, LIBERTARIANS AND OTHER RIGHT THINKERS

Among the books mentioned: THE MORAL COMPASS (William Bennett); TELLING THE TRUTH (Lynne V. Cheney); GOLDWATER: THE MAN WHO MADE A REVOLUTION (Lee Edwards); TO RENEW AMERICA (Newt Gingrich); THE SWORD OF IMAGINATION (Russell Kirk); NEOCONSERVATISM: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN IDEA (Irving Kristol); THE NEXT AMERICAN NATION (Michael Lind); AYN RAND: THE RUSSIAN RADICAL (Chris Matthew Sciabarra); VISION OF THE ANOINTED (Thomas Sowell); and THE SECOND MENCKEN CHRESTOMATHY (Terry Teachout).

The reviewer, Michael Rust, says of AYN RAND: THE RUSSIAN RADICAL: "Novelist and philosopher Rand remains one of the major influences on modern libertarian thought; Sciabarra, a serious revisionist, views her as a major contributor to radical social theory."

MICHAEL RUST, INSIGHT 15, no. 20 (31 May 1999)

In a cover story, "Rand'$ $tory," Michael Rust discusses the "Resurgent Ayn Rand," in light of a new postage stamp and a cable-television movie.  He adds:  "Earlier this spring, an academic anthology, Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, coedited by Mimi Reisel Gladstein of the University of Texas/El Paso and Chris Sciabarra, author of Ayn Rand:  The Russian Radical, appeared."