Amity Schlaes, author of the excellent book The Forgotten Man (debunking the idea that the New Deal was our national salvation), writes here for Bloomberg on the uncanny relevance of Atlas Shrugged to today’s political situation.
Ayn Rand understood that the more heavily politicized a nation’s economy, the more “success” depends on connections and chicanery and the less on quality and efficiency. Schlaes observes that many of Obama’s mandarins bear remarkable resemblance to the slinking characters in the book.
