Timely meditations Book

Three stars because I cannot agree with much of what Rand argues. But also three stars because, as Leonard Peikoff explains in the epilogue, Ayn Rand worked hard to be understood, down to the root.

I have to say, reading more Ayn Rand has helped me in conversation with capitalism apologists. When you understand the necessary conclusions of capitalism, you then realize that many people in the United States who claim it as their political philosophy, do not actually believe it very thoroughly.

While I think most of Ayn Rand’s moral takeaways are wrong, and in some instances, overtly immoral, I will always appreciate her courage to follow her ideas to their logical conclusions. I say this because many conservatives in the United States do not do this. If more of them were willing to read Ayn Rand, they would see the moral problems and incongruities with the ideas they claim to subscribe to.

Also, for anyone who claims that Ayn Rand was a Libertarian, this book is a must-read. She was explicitly in opposition to Libertarians, and there is an entire chapter dedicated to this. Said chapter is written Peter Schwartz, one of her intellectual heirs who serves on the board of the Ayn Rand Institute, but nonetheless, it is a clear crystallization of her thoughts.