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February 05, 2010 06:57 PM

“A despicable hatchet job, by a clueless non entity, pretentiously posing as a degenerate scum”: one or two thoughts about Ayn Rand

by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules


Ayn Rand is one of those writers who divide the world. There are partisans, who are utterly smitten by her message, and then there are the rest of us, who can’t fathom the fuss. The former find it very hard to forgive the latter, about which more in a moment. I have read some of Rand’s [...]


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