O-Land News Junkie Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Brian Doherty has published what looks like it might be an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, titled “Rand and the Right.” It begins:Because of her opposition to New Deal government controls, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand started off thinking of herself as a conservative. By the time her blockbuster novel, “Atlas Shrugged,” was published 50 years ago this week, she’d changed her mind. She decided she was a radical — a “radical for capitalism,” that is.Conservatives, she’d come to believe, were insufficiently principled in their defense of a free society and once the novel was out, the official conservative movement turned its back on her.While “Atlas Shrugged” was a ferocious defense of certain values shared by many conservatives, then and …Unfortunately, you must be a WSJ subscriber to read the full article.http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/680.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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