A rational assessment of Ayn Rand

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Mary Grabar

 Cathy Young presents one of the most reasonable assessments of Ayn Rand as her birthday passes.  Atlas Shrugs has some great passages, some great jabs at the left.  But parts of it are very disturbing, and Cathy points them out.  (Oh, and the sex scenes just parody themselves.)  It seems that many of Ayn Rand’s devotees are young males…maybe that says something, maybe it’s a reaction to the forced collectivism in our schools.  Maybe young males like the objectivism after all the “maternalist thinking” forced on them in schools.  Those are my personal observations from teaching and reading.  Tobias Wolff has a great send-up in his autobiographical novel Old School. 

Here’s Cathy’s article http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/09/a_rand_revival_100227.html

Tags: Ayn Rand, Books, Cathy Young, collectivism, Education, novels, young men