[Atlasphere]Orit Arfa Profiles ARI?s Yaron Brook for JPost

[O-Land News Junkie]

Atlasphere member has published a profile of Ayn Rand Institute Executive Director Yaron Brook in the Jerusalem Post, titled “You don’t fight a tactic.” It begins:

Dr. Yaron Brook, 46, speaks and carries himself like a Rand hero. His facial features are angular, his demeanor self-confident. His language is principled, logical, certain, fired by moral passion, replete with absolute terms: good and evil, right and wrong, defeat and victory. He has a slight lisp, which is easily overshadowed by the controversial and harsh words that roll off his tongue.

For the first time since he left Israel for America in 1987 - for essentially the same reasons Rand did - Brook gave a lecture in his mother country: “Israel and the West’s War with Islamic Totalitarianism: Why We are Losing.”

Born in Jerusalem and raised in Haifa, Brook met few intellectuals here who could nurture his interest in Rand’s ideas, which he first developed at 16 after reading Atlas Shrugged. The novel catapulted him out of the socialist-Zionist way of thought he had inherited from his South African-Israeli parents and from Israeli education and culture.

See the full article for much more.

http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/652.php