Watch these guys unironically post something immediately afterward about the vital importance of Judeo-Christian values to our civilization.
https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1373998146011983872
As the guys at PragerU should know, one the better takes on Ayn Rand remains that of Whittaker Chambers, a long-time Soviet spy who recanted, then became a political conservative and a writer for National Review.
He wrote this in 1957. It's still true.
whittakerchambers.org/articles/nr/bi…
He wrote this in 1957. It's still true.
whittakerchambers.org/articles/nr/bi…
From Chambers' review of Atlas Shrugged:
"The news about this book seems to me to be that any ordinarily sensible head could possibly take it seriously, and that, apparently, a good many do. Somebody has called it: “Excruciatingly awful.” I find it a remarkably silly book."
"The news about this book seems to me to be that any ordinarily sensible head could possibly take it seriously, and that, apparently, a good many do. Somebody has called it: “Excruciatingly awful.” I find it a remarkably silly book."
"Since a great many of us dislike much that Miss Rand dislikes, quite as heartily as she does, many incline to take her at her word. It is the more persuasive, in some quarters, because the author deals wholly in the blackest blacks and the whitest whites."
"In this fiction everything, everybody, is either all good or all bad, without any of those intermediate shades which, in life, complicate reality and perplex the eye that seeks to probe it truly...In modern dress, it is a class war. Both sides to it are caricatures."
"Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained...From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: “To a gas chamber — go!”
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