AF, AG And AR

Andrew Ferguson reviews Alan Greenspan's latest in The Weekly Standard. Early on, Greenspan the Ayn Rand acolyte comes up, and Ferguson has this to say:

[Rand's] creepy philosophy of Objectivism, placing the self at the center of the moral universe, was being enthusiastically embraced, as it still is, by tens of thousands of pimply teenage boys in the dreamy moments between fits of social insecurity and furious bouts of masturbation.

I'm no fan of Rand, but this is ugly and stupid. He's essentially saying "how dare these people read a book I don't like and feel good about themselves--they're nothing, unlike me, and in a properly run society they'll meekly accept they're nothing." Talk about creepy.

PS Greenspan was on Letterman earlier this week. It was great to see someone sit down and calmly explain what free markets really mean. That should be on television every day.