New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward in The Weekly Standard on Ayn Rand

November 13, 2009

It's not hard to imagine Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, at the Tea Party rallies that swept the nation this summer, writes Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward in The Weekly Standard this week. She'd be smoking, of course. Stalking around in a cape and sensible shoes, this avatar of individual liberty and rationalism would accost cheerful, tubby Midwest Republicans and baffle them with her favorite greeting: "What are your premises?"

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