Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand’s classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only "Atlas" were required reading [...]

When Anne C. Heller set out five years ago to write a biography of Ayn Rand, she was intrigued by the fact that though Rand’s novels like “The Fountainhead” continued to sell well, the libertarian writer was barely spoken about. One near-Depression later, however, Rand’s anti-socialist beliefs championing individualism over collectivism are suddenly striking a [...]

The Fatal Flaw in Objectivism and in Ayn Rand.  http://jordan179.livejournal.com/116567.htmlI have sometimes been accused of being an Objectivist. I was once, of course, and there is a certain sense in which I still am one — and a sense in which I am certainly not.In terms of the primacy of objective reality over subjective opinion, [...]

The oath from Atlas Shrugged