I found the last line charming - I’ll have to use it:
“If Ayn Rand were really making a comeback, nobody would be safe. And everybody seems to know it.”
I liked that as well.
“[M]aking a comeback”? Did she ever go away? Though I’ve never made a formal study of book sales and media mentions, my impression is that her popularity and influence have followed a fairly steady upward trajectory over the decades, getting steeper in the last few years. The notion looks to be quite as far off the mark as the one popular in the 60s but still abroad as late as 2004 (Buckley’s Getting It Right), that Rand was a passing fancy whose writings and ideas have no future.
“Ayn Rand: America’s Comeback Philosopher”
by Craig Biddle
http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2012-fall/ayn-rand-americas-comeback-philosopher.asp
For ideas that supposedly have no future, the lady doth protest too much, methinks. Corcoran’s article said this about the critics, without the Shakespearian prose.
“[M]aking a comeback”? Did she ever go away? Though I’ve never made a formal study of book sales and media mentions, my impression is that her popularity and influence have followed a fairly steady upward trajectory over the decades, getting steeper in the last few years. The notion looks to be quite as far off the mark as the one popular in the 60s but still abroad as late as 2004 (Buckley’s Getting It Right), that Rand was a passing fancy whose writings and ideas have no future.
That is true. I took the reference as how the critics that smear Rand see her as the boogyman in political enemies (see Ryan) when it is clear they are not full formed products of her ideas. Close enough scares them so you can imagine the heart attack they would have if someone closer to the mark ran for office.
That is true. I took the reference as how the critics that smear Rand see her as the boogyman in political enemies (see Ryan) when it is clear they are not full formed products of her ideas. Close enough scares them so you can imagine the heart attack they would have if someone closer to the mark ran for office.
Or perhaps worse yet for them , a Foxesque network from an O’ist perspective.
“[M]aking a comeback”? Did she ever go away? Though I’ve never made a formal study of book sales and media mentions, my impression is that her popularity and influence have followed a fairly steady upward trajectory over the decades, getting steeper in the last few years. The notion looks to be quite as far off the mark as the one popular in the 60s but still abroad as late as 2004 (Buckley’s Getting It Right), that Rand was a passing fancy whose writings and ideas have no future.
I don’t think the author of the article is claiming “she went away” but she certainly has made a comeback as far as relevence in the mainstream media.
In the '90s and earlier '00s the majority of people I’d mention Rand to had not heard of her, or if they had heard of her they maybe had heard of The Fountainhead but not read it.
Now you will rarely encounter someone who hasn’t heard of Rand. Unfortunately most of what most people have heard is misinformation still.
Or perhaps worse yet for them , a Foxesque network from an O’ist perspective.
Hmmm…
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