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Gary Cooper as Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, 1949. (Public Domain)

The Ayn Rand Institute, a nonprofit(??) devoted to applying Rands ideas to current issues and seeking to promote her philosophical principles of reason, rational self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism, has recently acceptedI assume grudginglygovernment assistance to the tune of a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan between $350K and $1 million, according to The Wall Street Journals Pat Fitzgerald. Lit Hub

This news comes from a Twitter post fromThe Wall Street Journal's Pat Fitzgerald (@PatFitzgerald23). In the world of architecture, Ayn Rand is perhaps best known for writingThe Fountainhead, a novel that follows Howard Roark, a talented architect who refuses to fit into the status quo of the architectural expression of his time. It is well accepted that Roark's character was inspired by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the descriptions of many of Roark's designs throughout the book could be argued to have a similar nature to Wright's.

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The Ayn Rand Institute received PPP loan between $350k and $1 million - Archinect