Jonathan Chait has an excellent essay on Ayn Rand and the irrational beliefs of her followers on the political right. There is much worthy of discussion, from her bizarre upbringing and even more outlandish cult-like cliques through to her and modern conservatism's absurdly anti-factual beliefs regarding worth, work and taxation, but I'd love to follow up on this snippet of information:
(she considered the entire field of physics "corrupt")Maybe the library will get the biographies referred to in the essay, but I doubt I'll have the time to follow up on Rand's physics hatred. After all, some of us have real work to do.
