Posts Tagged ‘ayn rand’

Posted on February 25, 2010 - by Aaron Ross Powell

The Objectivist Guide to Parenting

Let’s suppose you’re a good Randian, an objectivist, live your life in the cause of reason–and you end up with kids? Atlas Shrugged provides no guidance, at least not until your children are old enough to change the world with their entrepreneurial spirit.

What you need, obviously, is an Objectivist Guide to Parenting, right? Trouble is, [...]

Posted on July 17, 2009 - by Aaron Ross Powell

Atlas Shrugged: Skewering Collectivists

This post continues my journal of impressions and thoughts as I read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged for the first time.

I have to give Ayn Rand credit for knowing how to make a collectivist look foolish.  While her writing is generally pretty bland and her dialog stiff, the novel comes to life–in a peculiar, risen dead [...]

Posted on July 15, 2009 - by Aaron Ross Powell

Atlas Shrugged: Initial Impressions

Sans its message, sans its historical significance, sans its ability to turn young people into libertarians, the first thing one picks up on when starting Atlas Shrugged is the poverty of the prose. Ayn Rand, no matter her or her followers’ opinion otherwise, just isn’t a very good writer. The language is plodding, non-lyrical, and often [...]