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Reason Foundation Co-Founder Tibor Machan on Ayn Rand

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Tibor Machan was one of the founding partners in Reason Enterprises, which began publishing Reason magazine in 1971, three years after its creation. He became editor in the spring of 1971 and worked with the magazine through the '70s and '80s as an associate editor and senior editor. In 1978 he co-founded the Reason Foundation with Manny Klausner and Bob Poole. Today Machan holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California.

"I think that for Ayn Rand to have survived and made a life for herself, she almost needed that edgy personality, otherwise she would have been destroyed," says Machan, who was born in Hungary in 1939. At 14 years of age, his father smuggled Machan out of the country, fearing the Hungarian communist government. His background helps give Machan insight into how the intellectual mind of Ayn Rand functioned. "Her unpleasantness," he says, "ultimately can be fully justified given the treatment she was given when she came out the Soviet Union, told the truth about that country, and nobody paid attention." In 2000, Machan wrote Ayn Rand exploring all the major themes of Ayn Rand's philosophical thought.

Approximately six minutes. Interview by David Nott, camera by Alex Manning, and editing by Hawk Jensen.

This is part of the Reason.tv series Radicals For Capitalism: Celebrating the Ideas of Ayn Rand.

Watch the second part of the series: Reason Foundation Co-Founder Bob Poole on Ayn Rand at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJf5B7AHoU

Watch the first part of the series, Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRqNV6tNH5c

Watch a promo trailer for the series at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRqNV6tNH5c

Go to http://reason.tv for more information and downloadable versions of all videos.

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