The Ayn Rand Institute received PPP loan between $350k and $1 million

2020-07-08T12:31:00-04:00

The Ayn Rand Institute, a nonprofit(??) “devoted to applying Rand’s ideas to current issues and seeking to promote her philosophical principles of reason, rational self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism,” has recently accepted—I assume grudgingly—government assistance to the tune of a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan between $350K and $1 million, according to The Wall Street Journal‘s Pat Fitzgerald.

This news comes from a Twitter post from The Wall Street Journal's Pat Fitzgerald (@PatFitzgerald23). In the world of architecture, Ayn Rand is perhaps best known for writing The Fountainhead, a novel that follows Howard Roark, a talented architect who refuses to fit into the status quo of the architectural expression of his time. It is well accepted that Roark's character was inspired by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the descriptions of many of Roark's designs throughout the book could be argued to have a similar nature to Wright's.

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The Ayn Rand Institute received PPP loan between $350k and $1 million