![]() ![]() Long the poster girl of a particularly hardcore brand of free-market fundamentalism – the advocate of a philosophy she called “ the virtue of selfishness” – Rand has always had acolytes in the conservative political classes. It is a timely decision because Rand, who died in 1982 and was alternately ridiculed and revered throughout her lifetime, is having a moment. ![]() For the curriculum includes a new addition: the work of Ayn Rand. ![]() A s they plough through their GCSE revision, UK students planning to take politics A-level in the autumn can comfort themselves with this thought: come September, they will be studying one thinker who does not belong in the dusty archives of ancient political theory but is achingly on trend. ![]()
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