Is an Ayn Ran nation what is coming? Is that what “the people” need & want?
A postage stamp showing an image of Ayn Rand, circa 1999 (catwalker / Shutterstock.com)
The Raw Story
Ayn Rand (1904-82) has arisen from the dead. Over the last decade the pop philosopher and propaganda fictionist extraordinaire has moved steadily from the cultish margins to the mainstream of US conservatism.
Her ghost may even haunt the current presidential race with the candidacy of Republican Senator Rand Paul, a libertarian darling who received a set of Ayn Rand books for his 17th birthday.
In her bestselling books and essays, Rand frankly celebrated selfishness and greed – and the underside of this celebration is a scorn toward and demonization of any simple caring about other human beings. Such a stance has become a hidden, yet driving force behind such loaded catchphrases as “spending cuts” and, more grandiosely, “limited government.”
In a larger sense, though, Rand had never died. Sales of her books remained…
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