80 years, two photographs
Ayn Rand hated government, and Trump’s calls to ‘drain the swamp’ in Washington would have been music to her ears
Bye bye Bourgeois?
Gilles Bourgeois, Ayn Rand’s ultimate disciple, seems to have disappeared from LinkedIn.
How to appoint a President
The one saving grace of the Trump onslaught on the US election results is that his preferred medium is still Twitter, which limits him to just a few words at a time. Ayn Rand’s heroes acknowledged no such limitation, but in his 57-page rant against government John Galt still had to acknowledge the need for a government of sorts. How to choose it? A problem he never addressed.
Rand and Patel
We have our own Ayn Rand. We have a Home Secretary cast in her image. We have Priti Patel.
In praise of postal workers
Are schools and hospitals really in danger, as one modern-day follower of Ayn Rand claims, of being taken over by ‘unionised postal workers’? Should Covid-19 not have made us realise, if we hadn’t already, that postmen and women, delivery workers, shop workers, warehouse workers, lorry drivers, home healthcare providers and childcare workers deserve both adequate pay and our respect?
“Anthem” and “Nineteen Eighty-four”
Ayn Rand’s early novella ‘Anthem’ is often compared with George Orwell’s ‘;Nineteen Eighty-four’. There are some rather significant differences.