[Evie Munchkin]

Should be mandatory reading in high school at the minimum.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Along with "The Fountainhead"

[JackOfVA]

Should be mandatory reading in high school at the minimum.

I would go further - high schools should have a mandatory one year course centered around Atlas Shrugged, The Gulag Archipelago and Darkness at Noon. These books would lead into a study of economics, human nature and the desire of a non-trivial part of the population to exchange freedom for "free stuff" and how the exchange has always wound up with the population in chains, serving their masters. Part of the economics section of the course would involve the students running a fictional business, with guest lectures by local lawyers and accountants on all the regulatory hoops their businesses will have to comply with.

Jack

[ChildOfThe60s]

Should be mandatory reading in high school at the minimum.

You mean instead of this?