Posted on 11/28/2017 5:02:38 AM PST by LoveUSA
And I am completely creeped out by the prescient nature of her work.
The “Dog Eat Dog” act and other legislation passed by the evil liberals in her book would not even classify as bad satire today...it is complete reality.
Makes me shudder in the same way Orwell’s 1984 does, in the weird way to forecast what we see today.
I am a Christian, so I do understand your point.
The thing I find most striking about AS is the premonition Ayn Rand seemed to have about the overly regulated and collectivist trends that accelerated during the Obama Administration.
The Global Warming Hoax, the Political Correctness Cult, The false narrative of Islam being “A Religion of Peace” and so forth are not the same as the Horrible Dystopia described in Atlas Shrugged, but they are just as potent in leading to the Destruction of Our Culture and Freedom.
As for the speeches, I agree with you. I think it would have been a more effective book without them. One can get “the point” just by reading the story!
Yes Indeed.
I read 1984 in the seventh grade (beck in the last century LOL) and I have NEVER forgotten it.
My kids are immunized as will be my grandkids and as are the high school grads in my church to whom I give the book. Most of them do read it and any college inclination to believe in Utopia is aborted. It should be required reading with Witness being a strong suggestion for all children of Conservative or Libertarian parents.
!984
Horowitz was a Communist from a Communist family. A brutal death woke him up.
don’t give political books....if you give books, give subtle conservative books like old fashioned westerns or war stories....
I second “Smear” by Sherryl Atkisson. Shows how by far most of the hatred and smears come from the left.
The Miracle and Magnificence of America by Trevor Grant Thomas
A Choice, Not an Echo by Phyllis Schlafly
The Fourth Turning by Neil Howe, greatly influential to Steve Bannon
Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail (another Bannon favorite)
New Views of the Constitution of the United States by John Taylor of Caroline, 1823, reprinted in 2000 by Regnery Publishing
Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice by Sidney Powell
Willing Accomplices: How K.G.B. Covert Influence Agents Created Political Correctness and Destroyed America by Kent Clizbe
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left by Dinesh D’Souza
The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote by Sharyl Attkisson
The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness by Dr. Lyle Rossiter
Unlearning Liberty by Greg Lukianoff, president, Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
The Victims’ Revolution by Bruce Bawer (gay conservative author on the rise of identity studies in American universities)
Unwanted Advances; Against Love by Laura Kipnis (rape hysteria and witchhunts on campuses)
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg, a historian at Louisiana State University
Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom by Ryan T. Anderson
Sexual Morality in a Christless World by Lutheran pastor Matthew Rueger
The People vs Muhammad by J.K Sheindlin
Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War by Sebastian Gorka
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer
No God But One: A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam and Christianity by Nabeel Qureshi
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The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
When a reviewer wishes to give special recognition to a book, he predicts that it will still be read “a hundred years from now.” The Law, first published as a pamphlet in June, 1850, is already more than a hundred years old. And because its truths are eternal, it will still be read when another century has passed. Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before — and immediately following — the Revolution of February 1848. This was the period when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Bastiat was studying and explaining each socialist fallacy as it appeared. And he explained how socialism must inevitably degenerate into communism. But most of his countrymen chose to ignore his logic. The Law is here presented again because the same situation exists in America today as in the France of 1848. The same socialist-communist ideas and plans that were then adopted in France are now sweeping America. The explanations and arguments then advanced against socialism by Mr. Bastiat are — word for word — equally valid today. His ideas deserve a serious hearing.
My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder (a difficult read for a layperson but a great book if you have a decent understanding of economics)
The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law by Robert Bork
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline by Robert Bork
...or Jonathan Livingston Seagull is really good if you can’t come up with anything else.
“Crisis and Leviathan” by Robert Higgs.
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Why I am Libertarian by Murray
there are a few other books by Murray that I like too.
The Mandibles A story of a family caught in the web of current policies brought to their logical conclusions.
Any book by Mark Steyn
The vision of the Anointed by Sowell
Bump —lots of great reads —
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