Rand, famous for books on free-market ideals, enjoys resurgent popularity

Posted by sdesapio 13 years, 5 months ago to Books
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"...it's the philosophy underlying the plot that has made "Atlas Shrugged" one of the 2012 campaign season's hottest reads and placed its author, Ayn Rand, squarely onto mainstream America's pop culture radar."


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  • Posted by itisntluck 13 years, 5 months ago
    ***Rand has been an influence on conservative/Libertarian economic thought since the '70s and '80s, he said.***

    They still don't get it.........<shrug>

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  • Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years, 5 months ago
    I love it! Great article. I also love it when critics say her characters are "overly simplified." Spongebob is "overly simplified." Only fools make things complex just for the sake of having an excuse to avoid solving a problem. Too many liberal writers do that very thing, their characters are so hung up on their own self imposed complexities, that they spend the entire plot trying to resolve their silly problems, like coming to terms with some love in their life, or forgiving their parents for some childhood horror, or standing up to their boss at work. Rand's characters are beyond those silly problems, which to the small minds of critics passes over their heads.
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