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Rand and Hickman

26-Nov-09

Update 11/28 : A reader made several relevant points.
1. It’s a dangerous game whenever one starts making inferences from unpublished notes. Clear communication of ideas is incredibly difficult even when one is putting in the effort to make something publishable and generally accessible. In private notes, one’s only audience is oneself — as such, one [...]

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NY Times: Misunderstanding Capitalism’s Premises

07-Nov-09

The New York Times offers a book review of a Rand biographer in which they fundamentally misunderstand  Rand’s vision of capitalism:
“When Bennett Cerf, a head of Random House, begged her to cut Galt’s speech, Rand replied with what Heller calls “a comment that became publishing legend”: “Would you cut the Bible?” …In fact, any editor certainly [...]

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