Philip Rubenstein
Ayn Rand: High Priestess of the American Right
Summary
Thirty years before Gordon Gekko’s “Greed is Good” speech in the movie Wall Street, Ayn Rand declared that “Money is the Root of All Good” in Atlas Shrugged - still considered one of the most politically influential novels ever written. Born Alisa Rosenbaum into a well-to-do Russian Jewish family, Rand’s lifelong espousal of the creed of selfishness, unfettered individualism and unregulated free markets made her a hate figure for America’s left and high priestess for the nation’s right
Philip Rubenstein
Philip Rubenstein was director of the Parliamentary War Crimes Group, which, in the mid-to-late 1980s, campaigned to bring Nazi war criminals living in the UK to justice. Philip was also the founder-director of the Holocaust Educational Trust and played a role in getting the study of the Shoah onto the national school’s curriculum in the UK. These days, he works with family businesses, advising on governance and continuity from one generation to the next.