EDITORS: In the 17th paragraph, please sub "40 years" for "55 years." ("Atlas Shrugged" was published in 1957.) Sentence should read:
Ayn Rand had this bunch down cold 40 years ago, when in "Atlas Shrugged" she had industrialist Hank Rearden ask: "How do you expect me to produce after I go bankrupt?"
picking up at: " 'You won't go bankrupt. You'll always produce,' said Dr. Ferris indifferently, neither in praise nor in blame ...
Thank You Mountain Media
Vin Suprynowicz, assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, is author of the new book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998."
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Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, 1872
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken
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