America's Best Political Writer has debuted on the New York Times bestseller list with A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency. I've got my copy, now I just need that whole "free time" thing I've been hearing so much about.
Congrats Glenn, you deserve it.
It's a bad year to be a brilliant Jewish author. We've lost Arthur Miller, and now Bellow. Geniuses. "The
backbone of 20th-century American literature has been provided by two
novelists — William Faulkner and Saul Bellow," Philip Roth said
Tuesday. "Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the
20th century."
Drama and literature today loses one of its greatest voices to heart failure: the University of Michigan alum responsible for some of the most important Jewish and anti-capitalist literature of the 20th century. Watching him on a public access interview not to long ago at UM, he seemed as bright, as driven, and as yearning for justice as ever. A beautiful, beautiful man, and the most significant literary loss of my short liftetime.
In high school, I read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead in a matter of months. Digesting over 2000 pages of any author, especially one as heretical and provocative as Ayn Rand, will tend to brainwash a person.
Ayn Rand challenged me. She was the first person to offer me a perspective outside my cozy Judeo-Christian uprbringing and for that I will always be grateful.
But, Ayn Rand is wrong. Dead wrong. As with any absolutist regime, her views are too simple for a complex world. But, that simplicity (like the mythologies surrounding the free market and the culture wars) is what makes her philosophy compelling and powerful.
Eventually, I graduated high school, grew up, and renounced Ayn Rand's extremist positions. Our governor, however, has not.
That the man entrusted to designing our "tax" policy adheres to Ayn Rand's philosophy scares the buhjeezus out of me.
David Hawpe nails the Governor for his irreconcilable faith in both Ayn Rand's Objectivism and the Bible's commitment to social justice.
Mr. Hawpe, we salute you.
So, Governor Fletcher, when you're designing your tax plan, which is it going to be:
Or the virtue of selflessness?
Bonus points to who gets the song lyric reference.
Bill Quinn's new anti-Walmart book is being hocked on Walmart's own site.
Update: Walmart apparently became wise to the situation, but you can still buy How Wal-Mart is Destroying America and The World and What You Can Do About It at Amazon.
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