Alex Zadel

Yesterday, the New York Times’ released an eight-minute “Op-Doc” titled “Gospel of Intolerance,” from Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, exposing “how money donated by American evangelicals helps to finance a violent antigay movement in Uganda.”

“I love the wharf, listening to jazz at Westminster Church, and playing basketball with other guys. I’m a transgender man and I’m part of DC.” If you’ve bussed around our nation’s capital in the past year, you may have seen this ad (left) displaying a D.C. transgender resident, Iden Campbell McCollum.

Uniting social conservatives and libertarians under one banner is no easy task. But John Aglialoro, a producer of the film “Atlas Shrugged II,” has found the woman for the job: Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged author and literary inspiration for his “Atlas Shrugged” Trilogy. Aglialoro argues that Rand’s objectivist philosophy–which has received more attention since Rand-fan Paul Ryan’s addition to the Republican presidential ticket–can appeal to both groups with its emphasis on small government, individual rights, and capitalism.