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Atlas Shrugged? Forget that. It's over 1,000 pages! In contrast, the Communist Manifesto is less than 90 pages.

The book is strongly anti-Christian thought and morals, which makes it an interesting thing for a Republican to advocate for. It makes a mockery of "Love thy neighbor as thyself" and "Greater love hath no man than he who gives his life for another."

If Americans actually lived like Ayn Rand proposed, conservative Americans would not recognize their own country. Like many fantasies, it is aimed at the frustrated mediocre who dream of being the new rulers, like many Germans who accepted Nazism, and many Russians who accepted Communism. For most Germans and Russians, it did not turn out like they expected, and their conservative dreams and freedoms were used, along with many human bodies, as fertilizer for the new state.

Besides, she is not all that good as a writer. She also believed in strong sex, and William F. Buckly called her "the intellectual's pornographer." That, at least, should get some of the kids to read her books. But it isn't a conservative selling point. Maybe he means a censored copy. Ayn Rand would have approved of that.