CNN notices Ayn Rand’s renewed popularity
It difficult to tell whether it took a bumper sticker in Atlanta for a CNN reporter to take note of the resurgence in Ayn Rand’s works, or whether he noticed the bumper sticker misquoted “Atlas Shrugged” because he’s actually read it.
Still, it’s good that CNN noticed:
“Where is John Galt?” reads a sign in the back of a vehicle heading down Interstate 85 in Atlanta, Georgia.
The quotation is wrong. As any reader of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” can attest, the correct line is “Who is John Galt?” but the point is well taken.
In the midst of the credit crisis and the federal government’s massive bailout plan, the works of Rand, a proponent of a libertarian, free-market philosophy she called Objectivism, are getting new attention.
He then goes on to note what we already know — Rand’s novels are flying off the shelves.
