Today (4/24) in the New York Times

[BaalChatzaf]

This article on Ayn Rand and her philosophy appeared in the 4/24/2017 New York Times...

Please see:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/opinion/ayn-rands-counter-revolution.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article

[Brant Gaede]

Thanks for posting the link.

--Brant

[Peter]

The fifties were interesting times. Since they were fighting totalitarianism in America I think their “techniques” were moral but not precise enough. The investigations should NOT have been led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. In a way the left leaning press of the day promoted McCarthy the way they promoted Donald Trump when he first announced he was running. It was estimated Trump received two billion dollars in free, left leaning press and I believe it. Why? Because Donald Trump could never win. They were positive. Not a chance.

Peter

 

From The New York Times, Ayn Rand’s Counter-Revolution by Jennifer Burns RED CENTURY APRIL 24, 2017: . . . . We usually think of the 1950s as the decade of anti-Communism, defined by Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist and the purging of suspected Communists from unions, schools and universities. The prelude to all of that was the 1930s, when the nation’s intellectuals first grappled with the meaning and significance of Russia’s revolution. And it was in this decade that Ayn Rand came to political consciousness, reworking her opposition to Soviet Communism into a powerful defense of the individual that would inspire generations of American conservatives. end quote