In Atlas Shrugged, one of the people being carried to certain death on the Taggart Comet was a housewife who believed that she had the right to elect politicians, of whom she knew nothing, to control giant industries, of which she had no knowledge. Was she justified in her belief?.
Amongst the doomed passengers on the Taggart Comet in Atlas Shrugged was “a sniveling little neurotic who wrote cheap little plays into which, as a social message, he inserted cowardly little obscenities”.
There seems to have been little room for children in Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’. Reportedly, when asked if ‘children’ have any ‘rights’, she replied that they don’t.
It seems highly improbable that any of the people posting the thoughts of Ayn Rand on LinkedIn would have voted for Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Some may have remained true to their libertarian principles and declined to vote at all, but many will have lined up behind Donald Trump. How is that working out for them?
Why are so many Americans so angry? They have a beautiful country with abundant natural resources, and live under a constitution that guarantees liberties that few other peoples possess. The middle classes live lives of peace and prosperity that are the envy of the world. Yet so many seem so very angry
One matter on which Donald Trump, Ayn Rand and Bezalel Smotrich seem to be in complete accord is their approach to the future of Palestine. In their eyes it is unnecessary to consider the opinions of the Arabic-speaking half of the population inhabiting the land between the river and the sea. Even Ayn Rand might envy the smoothness of Smotrich’s transition, when presenting his solution to the problems, from reasonable analysis to barking madness.