Two long reads...Rand and Koch

[Thailandnotes]

Putting your money where you mouth is

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/...ast-matriarch/

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...urrentPage=all

[c1ue]

Re: Two long reads...Rand and Koch

I'm unclear on what the first link is supposed to say about Rand (Ayn?) or the Kochs. It seems to talk about correct attribution of artist's work.

[Thailandnotes]

Re: Two long reads...Rand and Koch

Wrong link. Fixed.

[oddlots]

Re: Two long reads...Rand and Koch

"I emailed Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. Professor Bloom did not mince words: “Ayn Rand was a writer of no value whatsoever, whether aesthetic or intellectual. The Tea Party deserves her, but the rest of us do not. It is not less than obscene that any educational institution that relies even in part on public funds should ask students to consider her work. We are threatened these days by vicious mindlessness and this is one of its manifestations.”
Professor Bloom may have been referring to the dust up last year when it was revealed that corporate money was contractually mandating the reading and teaching of Rand at publicly funded universities."

I found it literally unreadable, vapid, pretentious trash.

In high school.

It's (her) resurgence is completely at one with our age.

As the Jewish New Year's toast goes: "Next year no worse."

Courage.