The Smart Set: Paperback Politics - August 5, 2011: "If the zeitgeist has a face, it supposedly belongs to Ayn Rand and her capitalist philosophy of Objectivism... There is another writer whose political and philosophical influence is finally being felt in the public sphere. You may have read one of his books as a child. His name is Robert A. Heinlein, and he wrote science fiction. He was a libertarian enamored of military might, a conservative who championed free love. His heroes are certainly competent. They're also folks who hack the systems in which they live, not elitists who abandon a corrupt world full of moochers and looters to worship the dollar as an end unto itself. And unlike Rand, most of Heinlein’s work is actually readable."
Saturday, October 15, 2011
The evil of science fiction? It makes you love freedom too much
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