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She’s Back!
Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans radical enough for capitalism?
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Heller, the former fiction editor, admires Rand’s command of the 19th-century Dickensian epic melodrama, which was rooted in passionate concerns about society and economics. She notes in the current context that “as Ludwig Von Mises said, Rand writes about bureaucrats better than anyone else. That kind of smarminess of bureaucratic-speak— ‘we’re doing this for your own good’—is very much in evidence these days.” As Asness of AQR Capital Management says, “We still don’t know if Rand’s heroes are realistic. We can debate that. But I’d say these days that the jury is in that her villains are pretty realistic.”
For Rand’s popularity to achieve political traction, Randism will have to move beyond the strange preoccupation of a few politicians and the full-time passion of two specialist think tanks. Her ideas will need to become the guiding principle for a significant voting bloc or politically active movement. And that is a difficult problem for Objectivism, which as an organized movement never managed to convert the millions of cash-paying Rand customers into active “radicals for capitalism,” to use the author’s own self-description.
Rand’s relationship with attempts to turn her philosophy into a political force was ambivalent. When her disciple and lover Nathaniel Branden first started an official lecture series to systematize and spread her ideas in 1958, Rand was at first skeptical, then an enthusiastic helper. Later, after their affair ended badly, she squashed the operation entirely and chose to largely retreat from such efforts.
When you look at the 2009 revival, it seems as if the Republican Party or the right wing broadly conceived would be the natural political home for Rand. The few politicians who talk her up are Republicans. But dating back to National Review’s attack on Atlas Shrugged in 1957, the intellectual gatekeepers of the conservative movement have mistrusted or even hated Rand.
In March, National Review published a series of short reactions to the “going Galt” meme. Most were highly critical. In one, Joseph Bottum, editor of the Christian conservative journal First Things, called Rand “the flotsam and jetsam of ages past” and said that “William F. Buckley Jr. and National Review did the world a favor, all those years ago, by throwing the randy Randians overboard. Do we really have to let them climb back on the ship now?” Hillsdale College historian Bradley J. Birger hit on the most significant divergence between Rand and the right-wing rank and file when he called her “offensive, ignorant, and devoid of faith, hope, and love.” Rand’s militant atheism—and her vision of government’s proper role, which has no room for wealth redistribution of any sort, making almost every GOP politician a looter and moocher—makes it hard to imagine her as a thought leader for the modern political right.
Still, the Atlas Society’s Hudgins perceived signs of a more Randian right at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a modal gathering of young right-wing activists. “Of 1,757 respondents,” Hudgins wrote in a March essay at the Atlas Society’s website about a poll of conference attendees, “a whopping 74 percent said their most important goal was ‘to promote individual freedom by reducing the size and scope of government and its intrusion into the lives of its citizens.’ Only 15 percent answered ‘to promote traditional values by protecting marriage and protecting the unborn.’ And 10 percent at most wanted ‘to secure and guarantee American safety at home and abroad regardless of the cost or the size of government.’ ”
Rep. Ryan thinks the GOP needs to embrace Rand’s particular approach to politics—not merely stressing the practical benefits of freedom but arguing for its moral necessity. “We have an opportunity,” he says, “to make a choice clearly once and for all in the next two elections, and we owe it to the American people to give them a clear choice: Do you want a collectivist welfare state or do you want to get back to being a free market? We need to make a moral, not just practical or statistical, case.” Ryan admits he’s not sure the Republican Party as a whole is ready to make that argument with Rand’s uncompromising passion.
Whatever parallels one can detect between Atlas Shrugged and the current political moment, they are surely not precise. Statist nightmares that afflicted the America of the novel have not afflicted ours. Obama may be managing General Motors, and Goldman Sachs may be thriving through political pull, but nothing like the book’s “Directive 10-289,” which essentially nationalizes the entire economy and freezes everyone in his occupation, has been proposed.
Rand knew, and most of her fans knew, that her point was not to be literally prescient. Rand adored high drama and outrageous gestures, and she delighted in depicting the evil end points where she thought her intellectual enemies’ premises and beliefs would lead.
Political relevance for Rand’s work—translating the message of Atlas Shrugged into something useful in everyday life—is tricky. The Atlas Shrugged devotee who wants to change the world might note with disquiet that in the novel’s world, nothing got better until everything collapsed, with Eddie Willers, Rand’s stand-in for the average right-thinking, good-hearted, but not superbright American, weeping before a stalled train beneath an uncaring night sky.
Rand started as a novelist, and it is as a novelist that she still has the most effect on Americans’ lives. How the hundreds of thousands reading Rand for the first time this year will react to her will be personal, variable, and difficult to quantify; these readers probably will not end up propagating a new wave of small-government politics.
As Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead illustrated, lives worth living and loving can, and ultimately must, be forged in a world whose political and philosophical powers are opposed to individuality and liberty. In a society of ever-growing government where each individual’s ability to move the levers of political power is vanishingly small, that part of Rand’s message will remain the most relevant.
Senior Editor Brian Doherty (bdoherty@reason.com) is the author of This Is Burning Man (BenBella), Radicals for Capitalism (PublicAffairs), and Gun Control on Trial (Cato Institute).
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|11.9.09 @ 4:40PM|#
Rand, Rand, Rand, nothing but Rand.
Pecksniff|11.9.09 @ 5:55PM|#
Bitch, bitch, bitch, nothing but bitching.
|11.9.09 @ 4:42PM|#
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|11.9.09 @ 5:07PM|#
Reason's feeling damned randy lately, isn't it?
CatoTheElder|11.9.09 @ 9:22PM|#
Good one!
KITTEH|11.9.09 @ 5:13PM|#
2 MUCH TEH RAND
|11.9.09 @ 5:20PM|#
EOM
Colonel_Angus|11.9.09 @ 5:22PM|#
Damn she is unattractive. Is it ok to be a libertarian and not want to ever bother with reading a Rand book?
|11.9.09 @ 5:26PM|#
Sure. As long as you are actually a libertarian, meaning you believe in the basic values of libertarianism.
Colonel_Angus|11.9.09 @ 5:34PM|#
There are some statist programs I tolerate a bit more than some libertarians seem to (roads for example) but you won't find me arguing against privatizing them. And fuck entitlements.
|11.9.09 @ 6:57PM|#
There's a difference between tolerating programs and supporting them.
The main thing is that you don't find jobs or wealth as a right. That is, healthcare is not a right, federal money is not a right, a job is not a right, etc.
Andrew|12.10.09 @ 11:51AM|#
Sure, except that Ayn Rand is not a libertarian, and despised them as well.
If you are a libertarian, you are completely incompatible with Objectivism. If you don't even wish to bother reading a book because she doesn't make your dick stand at attention, then you're not only a monstrous libertarian, but you're also a monstrous murderer of logic and the pursuit of knowledge.
I am really growing spiteful of all the "libertarian" publications trying to relate their illegitimate actions to the very legitimate, studied, carefully-crafted, and 100% factual, writings of, and sanctioned by, Ayn Rand.
|11.9.09 @ 5:31PM|#
Protesting with "John Galt" on those signs is stupid. In Atlas Shrugged, he didn't protest, he LEFT the world of the looters. As he put it, he followed their rules, and pulled his ability and 'greed' out of the system.
Plus, I think most people who read Atlas Shrugged don't actually get it these days. I hate people like that representative, who say they are inspired by Rand, but don't even believe in laissez faire.
Then Again|11.9.09 @ 6:00PM|#
One could argue that using John Galt as a handle is equally stupid.
|11.9.09 @ 6:54PM|#
Name 40 good reasons why
2999|11.9.09 @ 5:42PM|#
Oh god please let Rand week end. Rand is now used by the left to dismiss any small-government advocacy as insane cult behavior.
Now that the right is discovering Rand, she doubtless will be used as philosophical support for preemptive war against Muslim Mexican abortionists as well.
Attorney|11.9.09 @ 6:04PM|#
I think the plan is to soften us up for pledge drive next week. "Sick of reading about Rand? Donate now, and we can pay for better research!"
|11.9.09 @ 6:52PM|#
I just bought two more Rand T-shirts THIS week, so I'm responsible for at least 3 Ayn Rand postings.
I'll totally stop now, I swear.
Gene Berkman|11.9.09 @ 9:50PM|#
Actually, the Ayn Rand Institute supports preemptive war against Muslims, on the grounds that they are all collectively guilty of holding irrational views that facilitate terrorism.
This is quite distinct from Ayn Rand's opposition to the initiation of force.
Andrew|12.10.09 @ 11:57AM|#
No, it isn't. A government's responsibility is the defense of its citizens' individual rights. We are not responsible for the rubble and barbarianism that these governments deal to their people. The federal government's only legitimate role is the protection of our individual rights, which means ending all foreign threats as effectively and swiftly as possible.
There is an ENORMOUS difference between preemption and non-interventionism. We can still advocate for preemptive war - WHEN AND IF IT IS RATIONAL TO DO SO - as long as we still maintain a non-interventionist foreign policy.
People fail often to understand these principles, because people think that Ayn Rand was a political scholar. She wasn't. She was a PHILOSOPHER, and to understand her political views, one must understand that they are the only views that support her philosophy. They go hand-in-hand, and you cannot rely on liberty axiomatically as so many libertarians do. There must be a moral justification for it, and if that moral justification is not Objectivism, then both your political and your moral philosophies are evil. Read Rand's book "The Virtue of Selfishness" and then Leonard Peikoff's "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand" to get a better understanding of what Rand's philosophy is really about. You'll be happy you did it.
|11.9.09 @ 5:48PM|#
I am getting so sick of looking at this woman.
Doc|11.9.09 @ 5:51PM|#
No, darling. She is not.
We grow weary of the fanboy treatment.
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Then Again|11.9.09 @ 6:01PM|#
So don't read the articles.
Monk|11.9.09 @ 6:54PM|#
I don't, her nasty face is all over the frontpage.
T|11.9.09 @ 6:02PM|#
So, who is this Rand woman y'all keep nattering on about? And how orthographically challenged were her parents, anyway? Who the hell spells Ann with a Y?
Colonel_Angus|11.9.09 @ 7:16PM|#
I can't help but pronounce Ayn as in Anus.
Attorney|11.9.09 @ 9:00PM|#
No no no. You pronounce AYN as in HEInie.
IceTrey|11.9.09 @ 11:41PM|#
Her real name was Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum.
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Tony|11.9.09 @ 7:25PM|#
As in Atlas Shrugged, the U.S. is suffering through a shrinking, staggering economy.
Yeah, thanks a lot Ms. Rand.
Colonel_Angus|11.9.09 @ 7:43PM|#
STFU.
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Attorney|11.9.09 @ 9:01PM|#
I will grant you this: I'd rather look at Rand's mug than Krugman's.
|11.9.09 @ 9:10PM|#
It's not like they didn't warn us, repeatedly, that there was going to be a Rand festival on the site.
CatoTheElder|11.9.09 @ 9:18PM|#
‘Read the news today? It’s like ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is happening in real life.’
Not sure that 'Atlas Shrugged' is really happening in real life, but we're certainly on 'The Road to Serfness'.
CatoTheElder|11.9.09 @ 9:21PM|#
err, Serfdom
2999|11.9.09 @ 11:31PM|#
I prefer Surfdom. It would have sold better if it was about how economic totalitarianism inevitably leads to awesome surfing conditions.
Ebeneezer Scrooge|11.9.09 @ 11:50PM|#
That would certainly sell much better in California.
The rest of the world, I'm not so sure about.
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IceTrey|11.9.09 @ 11:46PM|#
I just wish people would talk about something besides "Atlas". In my opinion the best and most important thing she wrote was "The Virtue of Selfishness". If that book doesn't change your life there's no hope for you. I wish that is what people would read first before "Atlas".
Ebeneezer Scrooge|11.9.09 @ 11:51PM|#
I agree.
But most people would rather surf.
Ebeneezer Scrooge|11.9.09 @ 11:52PM|#
The purpose of this thread was to identify the Rand haters out there. Your names have been duly noted.
Ebeneezer Scrooge|11.10.09 @ 12:09AM|#
Well Brian, interesting article but it's about impossible to tell what the collective American people really think. I hear numbers saying that somewhere over a third of the populace are self identified liberals. At least half the population must not be too off-put by liberals, given that they're Democrats.
And America just voted Obama-lini into office. The fact that they had a choice between Obama-lini the Younger, and Obama-lini the Crazy Elder, might tell us something all by itself. Like whatever it was the Mussolini was selling way back when, we're kinda sorta still into it today.
But one of the more interesting questions never got asked during this Rand week. How does it come to be that with Tony and his buddy-types having run the US educational system for most of the past century, we still have all this interest in Rand?
But maybe that's just a dying echo. The options we got in the last POTUS election are evidence again that the whole US political spectrum is moving decidedly leftward.
Ebeneezer Scrooge|11.10.09 @ 12:15AM|#
I've wondered more than once if the fact that the whole spectrum is shifting leftward, is the only thing that keeps the country from devolving into civil war.
Try for a moment to imagine The Rand Party vs the Democrats.
Ebeneezer Scrooge|11.10.09 @ 12:27AM|#
Another interesting question: what is it about large urban areas that brings out the liberal urges in humanity?
If the big cities on the East Coast and the Left Coast were obliterated by terrorists tomorrow, Obama-lini would find himself in deep shit come next election. Not that liberals don't exist in the rest of the country, but their numbers are enough smaller that they'd have far less political pull.
But it's not just in the US. China has always had the world's largest population centers, and their big cities were the first in history to sprout large groups of liberal-leaning people. China, for example, has always leaned towards socialist-flavored economics. And the first serious groups of pacifists that I know of in history, sprouted out of the larger Chinese cities. Pacifism is definitely associated much more strongly with our modern Left than it is the Right.
I suspect it's because, the Robin Hood Fix for The Poor, is far easier to sell to larger than smaller populations. But that somehow doesn't explain all of it.
|11.10.09 @ 9:49AM|#
Only idiots live in large cities.
Tim Cavanaugh|11.10.09 @ 12:30AM|#
Atlas Shrugged may finally be hitting the screen soon in the form of a cable mini-series starring Charlize Theron.
When are the Objectivist thespians going to Go Galt? Don't you like to think of them out on some island drinking out of coconuts with umbrellas in them, as civilization grinds to a standstill because of the lack of Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron and Brad Pitt movies?
monolith|11.10.09 @ 7:03AM|#
We would find out that these actors really are the amazingly talented people that they have always claimed.
They didn't actually rely on speaking other people's word or special effects. It wasn't true that they could be replaced by hundreds of virtually identical wannabe stars.
Judging by various documentaries made by actors and directors I have been led to believe tht Cuba offers them the freedom that they crave. it would make a perfect Galt's Gulch.
monolith|11.10.09 @ 6:56AM|#
Rand fan John Allison, chairman of a successful Southern bank, BB&T, which had been forced to take federal bailout money
I admire the ability of people to accept welfare and then immediately forgot about taking it and exempt themselves form the lists of "looters and moochers"
What would Rand have thought about all her fans in financial services? Wasn't she always going on about productive activity?
Barry Loberfeld|11.10.09 @ 9:18AM|#
"This year in The New Republic, Jonathan Chait slammed Rand as the fountainhead of the idea that the rich deserve their wealth."
For a review of Chait's book:
Modern Liberalism at Wit's End
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Well written article, Mr. Doherty, my first wife suggested I read Ayn Rand's writing nearly a quarter century ago. I never did, but see now I probably should have. Nothing too surprising in that, it wasn't until some time after all that water had passed under the bridge that I began to discover the woman was right far more often than she was wrong, even if she was so by accident. My wife that is, maybe Rand, also.
All I know about Rand came as a result of my wife's sensitivity to my general reliance on scientific method, my valuable tool, her source of intense irritation, made none the better by the fact she was raised in Sacramento, the daughter of a liberal career politician father and activist mother, I imagine that's who coached her on Rand, considering she couldn't grasp scientific method it's doubtful that after years of marriage and many tries to explain it at her request, that suddenly she realized "oh I see, you are just copying Ayn Rand!" It's all becoming clearer. My wife was a spoiled brat, what she lacked for maturity she made up for trough manipulation. Her parents had learned to expect some shocks but none like her hooking up with someone like me. I can't tell you how much Liberals hate bikers, especially connected elite Liberals. They were always nice to my face, but seemed to have trouble unclenching their teeth when they spoke to me. The only way it could be worse is if I was right leaning, fortunately their stereotype of us didn't allow that. Oops! When choosing to compartmentalize a segment of the population to focus hate on doesn't it just make sense to first learn a little about who you'll be hating. I've always been a Constitutionalist we have no group, so although no one claims us we generally land in traditional American libertarianism end of the conservatives. Hearing my wife describe my politics, along with words like objectivity from attempting to explain scientific method, being professionals in politics they must have assumed they hit a bull's-eye finally nailing me down. Well, I still needed to investigate Ayn Rand to who they must have held considerable contempt for, from experience that would suggest Rand is A-OK. I regret stopping with the examination of Objectivism Philosophy, seeing my smoking gun, then stopping. It seems likely that Rand and I both have much appreciation for certain contribution of Francis Bacon, the father of modern science. Could a man have a greater love for science, than this, to lay down his life in thy name. And so he did. As if I don't have enough battles going on else where the filthy swine are dirtying the name of my beloved science with their quasi scientific bull feces, anthropogenic global warming my ignorant jackass, it's a complete fraud.
Heading off on verbose tangent here, back to the subject.
Once again great article, thanks for writing it, you'd be surprised how many questions it answered for me. Up until I read the article I thought John Galt was a user of this web site, I had seen the name on posts and in posts, so had assumed he was a living person who was a bit of a legend in his own time. Like a "lone whacko" but not infamous.
It's John Galt I'm most intrigued by.
‘Read the news today? It’s like ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is happening in real life.’
Can't say yet, I need to read the book, but I do know a real life John Galt, that is, someone doing just what you described.
I'm on my way to the book store, if they don't have the book I'll order it. This should be interesting.
|11.10.09 @ 3:04PM|#
As an Airport Manager and Entrepreneur, I've witnessed the "Going Galt" phenomena. It's real. It's happening. And I totally empathize. While the option is tempting for myself -- I've chosen, for now, not to take that route.
|11.10.09 @ 4:09PM|#
How could a congress rep read books like AS and F and still find time to read 2000 page bills? I know the answer. I am always amazed that so many people are willing to read these long drawn out overly detailed accounts of disgruntled men. Aren't there any disgruntled women? What about Punks? They seem to be disgruntled. And old people too. What about the Amish?
If you want to know about freedom and free markets then just look it up on the internet.
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How do you have the nerve (I assume it's not ignorance) to say "...her ideas are spread mostly via novels, and not nonfiction or polemics"?? She wrote nonfiction for 25 years after she wrote Atlas, including hundreds of short or long essays and 8 books, including one in formal epistemology -- plenty of nonfiction for those interested in the philosophy of her thought. Typical libertarian smear job -- damning her with sneers while pretending to praise her.
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