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What should we make of Paul Ryan’s fondness for Ayn Rand?

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imageRepresentative Paul Ryan arrives to talk to the media after being nominated for speaker of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington October 28 2015.Yuri Gripas/Reuters

Paul Ryan, the Republican congressman from Wisconsin who was just elected speaker of the US House of Representatives, has acknowledged his admiration for novelist...

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