[CitizensTruth] FW: Atlas Shrugged: From Fiction to Fact

[Hal Snyder]

Thank you, Robin.

I am an Ayn Rand virgin, as Moore might say, but the synopsis below  
sounds like a straw-man attack. IMO, that is, sadly, the usual M.O.  
for Cato writers.

On Feb 16, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Robin Migalla wrote:


> Hi Folks,

>

> I recently read "Atlas Shrugged" for the first time, and the whole  

> time I

> was reading it had the thought that it really was rather prophetic.   

> Well

> apparently someone from the Wall Street Journal had the same  

> thought...

>

> 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years

>

> By STEPHEN MOORE

> <http://online.wsj.com/search/search_center.html?KEYWORDS=STEPHEN+MOORE&

> ARTICLESEARCHQUERY_PARSER=bylineAND>

>

> Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we  

> used

> to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a  

> "virgin."

...

>

> Mr. Moore is senior economics writer for The Wall Street Journal

> editorial page.