Mean Girl

Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed Lisa Duggan

JANUARY 2019

Ayn Rand’s notoriety as a reviled intellectual followed her beyond her death. Yet in the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference for mainstream figures, especially for those on the political right. Tracing her posthumous appeal, Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War to reveal the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas of our political present.