As regular readers are aware, I am not a fan of Ayn Rand, and I agree with almost everything Peter Wehner wrote below for The Corner at National Review Online. But I absolutely loved Jonah Goldberg’s response which I put at the end.
Objectively, Ayn Rand Was a Nut [Peter Wehner]
According to Politico.com, Ayn Rand [...]
Christopher Hitchens demonstrates again in an obit piece on Norman Mailer why he’s always worth reading,
Mailer also continually ran a great risk that very few are willing to run. I mean the danger of simply seeming ridiculous. He once nearly lost an eye in a bar fight, because he thought someone had implied that there [...]
Terry Teachout wrote about the 50th anniversary of Atlas Shrugged in the November 19th issue of National Review. In his article, he quotes Ayn Rand’s publisher, Bennett Cerf,
I remember when Atlas Shrugged was being edited by Hiram Haydn. The hero, John Galt, makes a speech that lasts about thirty-eight pages {sic!}. All [...]
The Randians are invading Washington DC on October 6th to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Atlas Shrugged. I have an idea. Let’s get a blogger field trip together and join the fun. Me, Dad29, and Tom McMahon. Let’s see how fast we can get shown the door.
“Excuse me, [...]
Congressman Dave Obey has a book out, Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive. Here’s a list of things almost as bad as being forced to read Obey’s book, but are still preferable experiences:1. Listen to Joel McNally on the radio2. Drink Drano3. Put my hand in [...]
I can’t stop laughing. This is enough to ruin a literary critic for life.
Fountainhead Earth is a twenty-volume philosophical fiction novel by Nobel prizewinning author Ayn Rand. It was Rand’s last work of fiction, and all volumes after the first were published posthumously. All volumes made the New York Times Best Seller list, but the [...]
