Friday, October 05, 2007
"Atlas Shrugged" at 50
Robert Tracinski says Atlas Shrugged is a damn fine book. He's right.
"October 10 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand's classic novel Atlas Shrugged, so in the coming week we can expect to see a flurry of articles about the novel -- many of which will, unfortunately, offer highly inaccurate descriptions of its meaning and significance.
"That's a shame, because Atlas Shrugged is a novel that everyone ought to discover and grapple with, because it succeeds at something too few artists and intellectuals have had the courage to do."
Read the rest here.