Join CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 138th episode of The Atlas Society Asks, where she interviews returning guest Tim Sandefur about his latest book “Freedom’s Furies: How Isabel Patterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness.” Listen as he recounts the story of how in 1943 the three respectively published “The God in the Machine,” “The Discovery of Freedom,” and “The Fountainhead”–laying the groundwork for what would become the modern libertarian movement.
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Tim Sandefur is Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute, an Adjunct Scholar at Cato Institute, along with a frequent lecturer for The Objective Standard Institute.
Check Out More from Tim Sandefur:
Website: https://sandefur.typepad.com/freespace/
Goldwater Institute: https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/our-team/timothy-sandefur/
Twitter: @TimothySandefur
Book: “Freedom’s Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness” – https://amzn.to/3GfYcgn
Book: “Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man” – https://amzn.to/3qCFhmz
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Thank you for taking my question JAG. I enjoyed this episode and I am ordering the book from Amazon. As always I look forward to hearing what future guests on TAS Asks have to say. Btw tomorrow is Feb. 2. She was born 118 years ago.
I enjoyed this episode. Lots of history in it.
It says a lot about American libertarianism's failure that it derives from the writings of three alienated, sterile women in the last century who couldn't form stable or proper relationships with men. Libertarianism in general, and Ayn Rand's philosophy in particular, just doesn't appeal to people who are socially functional and integrated into their society. Calling these people "second-handers," "social metaphysicians" or whatever doesn't change the fact that from their perspective, their lives are basically working in a way they find satisfactory.
It's fantastic getting your feedback Jennifer, especially when you answer my questions on Instagram. More of us need to speak up as you and the Atlas Society is. Especially how Fredrick Douglass, and Thomas Sowell said how disgusting Marxism really is.
The economist Brad DeLong argues that by the 1950's, when Rand was writing the bulk of Atlas Shrugged, the various experimental government interventions which came out of the New Deal were starting to work to create broad American prosperity. Americans enjoyed nearly full employment, greater access to college education for smart guys from the gutter like my redneck father, better economic security in their old age, unionized industrial jobs which supplied generous benefits, like family dental plans (imagine the horror of Millie Bush getting braces), government investments into useful infrastructure and new technologies and so forth.
Given that the quality of life was getting better in the 1950's in tangible ways, what was Rand really complaining about? Her grievances don't really make much sense.