this past week marked the 50th anniversary of the release of "Atlas Shrugged", which is still widely popular, if book sales are any indication (the other day it was #107 on amazon), and the planned movie version of the book featuring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, which i blogged about a while ago here on NGNG...
my old buddy and fellow musician Brian Doherty, ex-gainesville punk rocker (The Jeffersons) and , currently the senior editor of Reason magazine, has written an interesting editorial for today's Wall Street Journal--"Rand and the Right". he explores the long-standing contentious relationship between Rand/her supporters and the conservartive movement/Republican party, and makes a case for the political popularity of her philosophy (at least among book readers, a.k.a. voters). read the column...
speaking of Brian Doherty, a few years back he wrote a cool book review for Reason about "A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead", where one of his conclusions was "the Dead is best understood as an amazing, traveling capitalist commune".
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