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Delayed Retraction

Julian Sanchez | 1.27.2005 3:01 PM


Interesting to see that, in this Ayn Rand centenary piece, National Review Online contributing editor Andrew Stuttaford repudiates the infamous "to a gas chamber go" line from Whittaker Chambers' bilious National Review essay on Atlas Shrugged, just as the late novelist's officially sanctioned disciples are giving the charge a retroactive air of plausibility.

Julian Sanchez is a contributing editor at Reason.