[Lurker]

The Ayn Rand Lexicon, edited by Harry Binswanger is a must have.

I'll have to pick that up.

She had some insightful stuff, but her myopic hostility to the religionists was a fatal flaw of her philosophy.

I would largely agree with you on this point.

Rand got most of her philosophical egotism directly from John Locke and Thomas Hobbes before him.

Goody. More books to buy....

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[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is a huge book. If you can sort through the 800 pages of overt Biblical notation, there is a lot of gold. (Get the version with the Latin variants.)

Hobbes was intensely and neurotically anti-war. But that does not inherently make his ideas irrelevant. He was a monarchist, what else could you be in the 1600's? (Both Yeshua and Yahweh are Zionist monarchs in the Bible.) He skewers the Left from the grave.