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…sic Books, 2014), Mark Newman Networks: An Introduction, (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010); Remco van der Hofstad, Random Graphs and Complex Networks. Vol. I, (Eindhoven University of Technology, 2015); Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker. The Exploit a Theory of Networ...

…Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only "Atlas" were required reading for e...

…away with it. By the time it had been discovered in the first week of June 2013, it was not possible for the FBI, the Grand Jury or any other US agency to question him because he had fled the country. He went first to Hong Kong. Although it is economically autonomous, the city...

Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as recently as 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club...

… Angeles, arrived for his first day at work at a low-slung, modern building along the Santa Monica beach in California. RAND - astylish 1950’s acronym for Research & Development - had been established by the US Air Force with an ambitious aim: How might the best minds of math and...

…. Pesach Baran became Paul Bran in America, a model student, a prize-winning mathematician and eventually at Hughes and Rand he established himself as one of the great American engineers of his generation. And like so many refugees of that era, the sharp, irreversible exodus left...

as a carefully screened handful of scientists at RAND knew

” United States Air Force Project RAND (August

former Fed Chair Greenspan conceded that his Ayn Rand philosophies regarding regulations and

…IS M & F RUTH FITERMAN DE LORIS J FRIEDMAN RAYMOND GINN FLORENCE L HERRICK L ALLAN & MILLER STEPHEN C & BARBARA G CARDO RANDY & STRAUSS CAROL K & FIG TREE II PARTNERS MARCANTONIO MARY M BLONDER DOROTHY PAGE MICHAEL F & BELLARD GARY THREE 15 WORTH INC MANNING JOHN P EPSTEIN ROBERT...

…carry out their mission. For example, in 1969, the celebrated whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst at the RAND Corporation, had an accomplice, Anthony Russo, who also had worked at RAND. (Both were indicted by the government.) Acting in concert, they copied secret d...

Notes to pages 121-129 | 317 119 his son Senator Rand Paul: See Katie Glueck, “Rand Paul Backs Snowden, Bashes Clapper,” Politico, Jan. 5, 2014. 119 “We actually buy cell phones”: Snowden quoted in “New The Guardian Inter- view with Edward Snowden,” Guardian, July 17, 2014, htt...

…l is routinely labeled a libertarian. On a bookshelf in the apartment, as if in confirmation, is a hardback copy of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” the bible of the movement. A gift, he said. A lesser-known but possibly deeper influence was the French philosopher René Girard, who ta...

…rry out their mission. For example, in 1969, the cel- ebrated whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst at the Rand Corporation, had an accomplice, Anthony Russo, who had also worked at Rand. (Both were indicted by the government.) Acting in concert, they copied secret d...

former Fed Chair Greenspan conceded that his Ayn Rand