I couldn’t avoid this thread...
I followed a similar trajectory. Friedman to Rand to Aristotle to Aquinas.
Rand was only worth reading as a transitional stage. Friedman is the Aristotle of economics. St. Thomas is in a class of his own.
My respect for Ryan has increased.
And to think that philosophy to liberals is Alinsy, Foucault or Marx. What a joke.
The most beautiful girl in the world insisted I read Atlas Shrugged for our relationship to continue.
That was most certainly enough incentive for me to wade thru it . . all 43,000 pages of it ;-)
Like most youthful Uni romances, it didn't last (to my eternal regret), but that gift of her insistence was priceless.
Thank you Mary DeVore, wherever you are ! !