Steve Moore's essay in the WSJ is priceless:
Ultimately, "Atlas Shrugged" is a celebration of the entrepreneur, the risk taker and the cultivator of wealth through human intellect. Critics dismissed the novel as simple-minded, and even some of Rand's political admirers complained that she lacked compassion. Yet one pertinent warning resounds throughout the book: When profits and wealth and creativity are denigrated in society, they start to disappear -- leaving everyone the poorer.
It's certainly terrible fiction, so that may be its only saving grace... ?
Posted by: Andy | January 17, 2009 at 10:47 AM