Neoliberalism Tapestries
Description: Atlas Shrugged - Rearden Steel is a company founded by Hank Rearden about ten years prior to the start of the story in the novel. Rearden bought an abandoned steel mill in Philadelphia at a time when all the experts thought that such a venture would be hopeless. He turned it into the most reliable and profitable steel company in the country.
Description: Atlas Shrugged - Patrick Henry University is a fictional institution featured in her 1957 Ayn Rand novel, Atlas Shrugged. The University serves as a critical setting for the backstory of the novel's main heroes and philosophical anchors. It is the college where the story's central figures John Galt, Francisco d'Anconia, and Ragnar Danneskjöld, all met as 16 year old students.
Description: Atlas Shrugged - Akston's Diner is a fictional roadside diner from Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, operated by the character Hugh Akston, a former philosophy professor turned short-order cook. It is located in a run down, remote diner where major industrial figures in the novel secretly meet. The diner symbolizes the withdrawal of the "mind" (intellectuals and producers) from a collapsing society. It is famously the birthplace of the strike pledge: "I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
Description: Atlas Shrugged - Rearden Steel is a company founded by Hank Rearden about ten years prior to the start of the story in the novel. Rearden bought an abandoned steel mill in Philadelphia at a time when all the experts thought that such a venture would be hopeless. He turned it into the most reliable and profitable steel company in the country.
