There are some areas where I strongly disagree with Rand, but there are other areas where I agree with her just as strongly. And as Jerome Tuccille once wrote, “It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand.”
She did a lot of good, though many conservatives didn’t like her. Bill Buckley essentially read her out of the movement. I think there is room for both.
“Bill Buckley essentially read her out of the movement.“
Seeing where Buckley’s crew took us, I’ll take Rand.
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Bill Buckley wrote that he was introduced to Ayn Rand when she came up to him at a party and rasped, “You arrre too intelligentt to beleeff in Gott!!”
Ayn Rand, seriously, was a monster of the first water. But, I read and enjoyed her books. Generally, artists we admire turn out to be horrid, vile, disgusting monsters. Exception: CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.