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.
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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