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Live free or else!(Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement)(Book review)
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, by Brian Doherty (PublicAffairs, 768 pp., $35)
'AYN RAND is the greatest human being who has ever lived."
"Ayn Rand, by virtue of her philosophical genius, is the supreme arbiter in any issue pertaining to what is rational, moral, or appropriate to man's life on earth."
"Once one is acquainted with Ayn Rand and/or her work, the measure of one's virtue is intrinsically tied to the position one takes regarding her and/or it."
These, according to Brian Doherty's new book Radicals for Capitalism, are just three of the "implicit premises" of Ayn Rand's inner circle. These ideas were taught to young initiates through an organization called the Nathaniel Branden Institute, whose founder, Nathaniel Branden, was born Nathan Blumenthal but changed his name--so the story goes--when he fell under Rand's spell: "Branden" is an anagram for "ben Rand," or "son of Rand" in Hebrew. The married Branden denied this oft-repeated claim, perhaps because it would make his sexual relationship with Rand too incestuous even for one who truly did believe she was the greatest human being who has ever lived. Considering that it was NATIONAL REVIEW--in a 1957 Whittaker Chambers review of Atlas Shrugged--that famously read Ayn Rand and her philosophy out of the conservative movement as a form of cult, it seems worth mentioning all of this, if for no other motivation than team pride: "We told you so!"
That being said, Radicals for Capitalism is, quite simply, the best book of its kind ever written. ...
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