The Fall 2004 issue of Modern Age includes an essay on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged written by Thomas Bertonneau. Stay tuned to the ISI Forum for a discussion on the article and the merits of Rand's work.
Below is a link to Thomas F. Bertonneau's article (as a PDF) from the Fall 2004 issue of Modern Age, "Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: From Romantic Fallacy to Holocaustic Imagination."
I have become disenchanted with ISI over the years and can see why ISI would attack Ayn Rand. She and many others, especially Ludwig Von Mises, has exploded the economic fallacy of third way economics. ISI, and its trad/neo con catholic supporters continue to uphold this medieval nostrum in the face of reality. This months Intercollegiate Review resurrects an old essay from Ralph Aneil on Wilhelm Ropke, showed zero intellectual growth by ISI over the last few decades. The fact that ISI sells Ropke's books and heralds him as some kind of economic genius truly shows a dumbing down of conservative thought.
the recent article form the president of FEE once again drives a stake through this socialist incrementalist economic fallacy. The German Economic Miracle and the "Social Market Economy" By Richard Ebeling http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=8270
Whether Ropke,. Belloc or Chesterton this medievalist musings and crying over the destruction of the old order were a infantile preoccupation of grown men over their childhood memories lived in wondrous fantasies where the good little peasants, the guild and the merchants all served the wise and noble king and the church. Such nostrums of the old order if implemented would rocket us all back to the static and stultifying suppression of the ancient regime.
Anything that threatens the monarchic illusions of this brand of neo-connism must be attacked and quickly dealt with. I am nto a Randian, but I will defend what she says against this most horrific of "conservative" beliefs.
