Congressman Henry Waxman : "...you found that your view of the world, your ideology was not right?"
Alan Greenspan : "Absolutely, precisely, That's precisely the reason I was shocked, because I have been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence it was working exceptionally well."
I was at Ayn Rand's funeral over 25 years ago. A light spring rain fell on the cemetery Valhalla, New York as David Kelley read Rudyard Kipling's ode of self-reliance If at her graveside. I was sixteen years old and a few friends, my mother and I had crashed the funeral.
For years, Ayn Rand was a major
Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism - The specifics are very different in some cases. Ayn Rand was an atheist, for instance. However, the same rigid adherence to ideology
Rand's legacy continues to pop up in odd places. A few years ago, I saw Iron Man director Jon Favreau speaking to a group of would be filmmakers and he said his best advice was "Read The Fountainhead." Wikipedia found Jimbo Wales was active on Objectivist message boards just a few years ago. Ron Paul , Bob Barr, Penn Jillette, and the videogame Bioshock was all influenced by her.
Unfortunately, Ayn Rand's biggest legacy may be the economic collapse we're seeing now.
