7/5/2023 0 Comments Atlas shrugged meaningThe first clue came in that same 2005 speech. I just think he wasn't a very discerning reader. (Ayn Rand sycophants and her most vociferous critics are the two groups in the world who think that the controversial author's ideas must be embraced or rejected in their entirety.) So I don't mind the idea that the Russian emigre's books shaped Ryan's word view. Too many Ayn Rand critics react to the mention of her name in the way that John Birch Society members react to an academic citing Karl Marx. What liberals always seize on is his statement, "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are." That doesn't bother me in the least, for when I was 11 or 12, I plucked Atlas Shrugged off the family book shelf, where it sat beside The Lord of the Rings, Trinity, Tai-Pan, and Watership Down, and it taught me quite a bit, by which I mean that I gleaned useful insights from it, not that I took its every word as gospel. Paul Ryan's biography is a 2005 speech he gave at The Atlas Society, where he extolled author and philosopher Ayn Rand, particularly her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged.
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