"The pronouncements of progressive politicians, woke academics, and senior bureaucrats increasingly sound like characters out of 'Atlas Shrugged'."
"A friend who shall remain nameless suggested something last week that I can't shake: The pronouncements of progressive politicians, woke academics, and senior bureaucrats increasingly sound like characters out of [Ayn Rand's 1953 novel] 'Atlas Shrugged.'
"I liked Atlas Shrugged--still do--but also shared the common view that the villains were overdrawn. And as of the 1950s, when Rand was writing it, they were. As of the 2020s, not so much. Merit is racist. Individualism is evil. Objective truth is an illusion.
"There's an op-ed to be written, with direct quotes from leading contemporary progressives and direct quotes from Wesley Mouch, Robert Stadler, and Floyd Ferris. The parallels are amazing."
~ Charles Murray
"It’s not just high taxes that are driving people out of cities.
"There are other costs—moral, social, and cultural—when you create communities that spurn property rights and celebrate looting.
"IRS data only tell us so much. If you want to better understand those costs, pick up 'Atlas Shrugged.'"
~ Jon Miltimore, from his post 'America’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ Moment Has Already Arrived, New IRS Data Show'
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Well yes, but lets not get too arrogant about it... Via Samizdata, Why Elite Libertarians Failed so Miserably on COVID:
Now to my own tribe: the libertarians.
For three years, I’ve been reluctant to say anything about the elephant in the room, the near-complete failure of libertarians to stand up to the lockdown and mandate regime. It was a moment in history that was tailor-made for them. Everything in their training taught them to be suspicious of government power and relentless in the defense of liberty.
Instead they mostly went silent. Worse, they became the Praetorian Guard of the lockdown Caesars, giving them cover when they deserved it least. The “radical” libertarians defaulted to a completely conventional careerism, even to the point of manufacturing rationales for terrible attacks on the most vulnerable.
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