{"id":11846,"date":"2010-02-10T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/10\/rand-resurgent\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:45:42","slug":"rand-resurgent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/10\/rand-resurgent\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Resurgent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Cathy Young&#39;s <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/09\/a_rand_revival_100227.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A Rand Revival<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> offers a balanced appraisal.&#0160; Excerpts: <\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Politically, Rand wanted to provide liberal capitalism with a moral foundation, challenging the notion that communism was a noble but unrealistic ideal while the free market was a necessary evil best suited to humanity&#39;s flawed nature.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">[. . .]<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">But Rand&#39;s work also has a darker, more disturbing aspect&#8211;one that, unfortunately, is all too good a fit for this moment in America&#39;s political life. That is her intellectual intolerance and her tendency to demonize her opponents. Speaking through her hero John Galt, Rand declared, There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">For more on Rand, seen my <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/rand-ayn\/\">Ayn Rand category<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy Young&#39;s A Rand Revival offers a balanced appraisal.&#0160; Excerpts: Politically, Rand wanted to provide liberal capitalism with a moral foundation, challenging the notion that communism was a noble but unrealistic ideal while the free market was a necessary evil best suited to humanity&#39;s flawed nature. [. . .] But Rand&#39;s work also has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/10\/rand-resurgent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rand Resurgent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rand-ayn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}