Hey, its the internet. No qualifications needed. It presumes that readers will be able to use reason and discard irrational, ignorant writings. Yes, it is a lot to expect, given how effective public schools are at eliminating reason, but its the closest thing we have to liberty. What this reviewer misses (as do others critical of Rand) is the underlying optimism of truly creative and productive people that is obvious to many of us.

This piece is just one more example of someone who doesn’t get it. His assertions are shallow and biased. So many are quick to express their knee jerk reactions and mischaracterize the tenets of the philosophy. Whenever one equates selfishness, or more appropriately self-interest with greed you know you are dealing with someone without full understanding! Why read the book you can make hay with the title… The Virtue of Selfishness was chosen as the title of the book as a means to entice people to read further and understand what was really meant. Some people just can’t think deeper than one or two steps. It is the usual modus operandi of simpleton detractors to assume there is only one meaning for a word. Subtlety and nuance are not known to him. He should stick to checkers and avoid chess…

This is just one more example of many which we have been subjected to of late, where someone is capitalizing on Rand by demonizing her. Pathetic second hander!
O.A.

Qualifications? In the Huff Po?

If I had an account I would post something like this, but I do not want Huntington post associated with me in any way.

You obviously have no understand of Rands work. Many times over and over again throughout it she voices the fact that you do not have the right to initiate force of any type. Bernie Madoff is not moral as he initiated force in the form of theft. You lost any credibility at that point in the article and I read no further.