Are there any fans of Ayn Rand on this site?
I read almost everything Rand wrote back in the 1960s. Found her interesting, but after thorough analysis of her thinking, rejected her terribly flawed ideology - mixture of greed, hatred of all forms of government or contrary ideology, and a perception that she could do anything she wanted and no one had any right to say anything about it. .
Not a fan exactly more a reluctant admirer.
She created perhaps one of my all time favourite villains in Ellsworth Toohey a personification of solipsistic self interest, hypocrisy and oppression mascaraing as egalitarianism.
I lean toward libertarianism. It’s been so long since I read those Ayn Rand books I remember very little, but they resonated somehow. I recently read a Henry Hazlitt book.