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Jason Brennan Joins the Brigade of People Misrepresenting Ayn Rand’s Views
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Jason Brennan Joins the Brigade of People Misrepresenting Ayn Rand’s Views

By Daniel Wahl

Jul 23, 2014
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Every so often, people hostile to Ayn Rand’s ideas try to attack them by saying that Rand said or implied something she never said or implied and then attacking what she never said or implied. Consider some examples.

In an article for the New Criterion, Anthony Daniels (aka Theodore Dalrymple) claims (among other things) that Rand rejected compassion and…

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