How could anyone possibly construe any part of Ayn Rand's body of work as supportive of a racist, and a murderer? "Racism is the lowest form of collectivism." It couldn't be any clearer.

Typical Statist attack on anything or anyone who doesn't fall in behind their scheme.
Sadly, many will believe Ms. Heller's nonsense, for, as Orwell said, “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”

The comment, if true, is so far from what Rand espoused and proved as to make one wonder who in the hell is she talking about. Is it possible to have read the tens of thousands of Rand's words and to so completely misunderstand them that you make such a statement? It's beyond stupid. It is delusional. Or perhaps just the desire to attend cocktail parties with the "in" crowd.

I absolutely love it when a Slime Stream Media Trash Printer like Time Magazine quotes a Liberal Non-Person Twit like Anne C. Heller {Who has paid to have her history erased from the web. She's not even in Wikipedia, while claiming to be an Editor and Author} writes extensively about a person and a philosophical subject that she knows nothing about.
An adjunct at Bennington now, she would have been a child when Rand passed: ERGO her writing is based on flawed research and is obviously erroneously conceived.

Just another example of someone from the Left spewing more vitriol at anyone who has reasoned values.

I guess those people at TIME figure they'll be going under in a few years anyway, so they might as well cash in (sell out) their reputation as the NY Times has done.

The socialists and progressives are making a preemptive strike.

The Atlas Shrugged flicks must have tweaked some Marxist noses.

Here's the background on Heller. She wrote Ayn Rand and the World She Made, a biography published in 2009. Based on scores of interviews with people who knew Rand (including Nathaniel Branden), reviews of archival materials from Russia and the U.S., it is a non-objectivist view of Rand's life and ideas. Notably, she was denied cooperation by the Ayn Rand Institute. Heller purports to be an admirer of Rand but not an advocate for her ideas. On its face, the biography is quite thorough and well researched and provides many factual insights not found elsewhere.

Interesting. If I am not mistaken Ayn Rand is and has been dead quite a while. How you one be a "fan" of something if they are dead.?

Seems to me the NewYork times is really trying to push their liberal bent on things, and trying to remain relevant in this world. They are failing miserably, or is that failing brilliantly...

Published or unpublished works, Ayn Rand is fiction even though Atlas Shrugged seems to becoming fiction to fact.

Isn't there a gap in years between Rand's death and Roof's Birth?

Someone at Time needs to realize it's Time MAGAZINE, not Time Machine...

Who the hell is Heller???

Besides copies of the Constitution, Declaration of independence, Federalist Papers, Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, I also have copies of Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, and the Communist Manifesto in my library. I wonder what a liberal flea-brain would make of that?

C'mon now...what in the Bible could possibly interest Barak Obama? After all, it's full of executive orders that he didn't write.

I've heard somewhere that Obama read the Bible once. Would that make Jesus or Jehovah responsible for his evils?

It appears that some people will go to all ends to attack Ayn Rand. She is obviously very important to them to the point that they need her for their own existence. the heller person is one of them!

Amen!

That's quite a leap that Ms Heller is making. A character from Rand's writings has some thoughts that are similar to the ramblings of some current loons, so therefor Ayn Rand was a fan of sociopaths. And since Ms Heller is Rand's self-proclaimed biographer, it must be so.

I for one am amazed!

Prior to yesterday, I was unaware of Heller. I would appreciate a briefing on Heller's biography of Rand. I am presently reading

http://atlassociety.org/objectivism/a...

Can't imagine she was. Probably received full endorsement from Hollywood and they are working on the movie script now.

Well, that's some heck of a biographer. Was she authorized by any Objectivist?