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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:05 PM Jun 2014

Dave Brat Runs A $500,000 Program To Push Ayn Rand's Ideas At College

ERIC LACH – JUNE 11, 2014, 12:31 PM EDT

Dave Brat, who stunned Washington, D.C. by upsetting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in a primary Tuesday, is a college professor. At Randolph-Macon College, a small Virginia liberal arts school, Brat chairs the economics and business department.

But he does more than that.

Brat is also the director of the school's BB&T Moral Foundations of Capitalism Program, a bank-branded program intended to give "free-market principles" -- and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism in particular -- a leg up in the classroom.

The program was started by the Branch Banking and Trust Company (BB&T), a North Carolina-based financial services company which currently boasts $184.7 billion in assets. The ideas behind the program were laid out in 2012 in an essay written by former BB&T CEO John Allison.

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Dave Brat Runs A $500,000 Program To Push Ayn Rand's Ideas At College (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP

And so it begins....nt kelliekat44 Jun 2014 #1

I'm interested in recordings LordGlenconner Jun 2014 #2

You might find something here.... DonViejo Jun 2014 #6

This guy is going to be easy to rip apart. He's a Cato guy, like all the closeted Libertarians. tridim Jun 2014 #3

Ayn Rand's thoughts are to philosophy what dog shit is to a stew recipe. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #4

Well said! Bravo... Glorfindel Jun 2014 #5

In other words, Dave Brat is a paid spocksman for the 1%. Teabaggers beware. Viva_Daddy Jun 2014 #7

K & R !!! WillyT Jun 2014 #8

kelliekat44

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1. And so it begins....nt

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:08 PM

Jun 2014

LordGlenconner

(1,348 posts)

2. I'm interested in recordings

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:09 PM

Jun 2014

Specifically past lectures and commentary. He's bound to have said something completely insane at some point and it's likely been recorded.

DonViejo

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6. You might find something here....

Reply to LordGlenconner (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:20 PM

Jun 2014

Princeton Theological Seminary (NOT Princeton U)

If you're interested in reading any of his written works, they can be viewed here:
http://faculty.rmc.edu/dbrat/research.html

One of them, “An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand” could make for interesting reading

The above is from another comment I entered this morning.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025080623#post9