Jennifer Burns is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
Articles by Jennifer Burns
Howard Roark in New Delhi, Foreign Affairs: The surprising popularity of a libertarian hero in India
Vita: Brief Life of an Iconoclastic Individualist, Harvard Magazine: a one page biographical sketch of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand and America's New Culture War, Christian Science Monitor: From Rush Limbaugh to President Obama, Ayn Rand and her novel "Atlas Shrugged" are recalibrating America
Academic Writing
Links to my scholarly articles can be found here.Watch Professor Burns on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Oct. 15th!
Recent Blog Posts
- Maker Faire: Where Libertarian Dreams Come True
- The Right Since Obama: The Rise of Market Fundamentalism
- My Appearance on the O'Reilly Factor
- In the Rand Archive, Part 6: On the Brandens, Continued
- Money in Politics: A Case Study from 1948
- 2009: The Year of Rand
- A question about Howard Zinn
- Bookplates: Personalize your copy of Goddess of the Market!
- In the Rand Archive, Part 5: On the Brandens
- In the Rand Archive, Part 4: What Will Happen Next?
- Top Three Questions about my interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
- Book Tour video
- In the Rand Archives, Part 3: Publishing
- In the Rand Archives, Part 2: The edited letters and diaries
- In the Rand Archives, Part 1: Gaining Access
- Libertarian Squishiness: Or Why the Right is Not Conservative
- Thoughts on the literary present as it relates to Ayn Rand
- Ayn Rand heart Farrah Fawcett
- Is Obama the next FDR?
- Classic Books about Reconstruction