Newsweek recruited South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford to review of a new Ayn Rand biography ? perhaps deciding that only a controversial political figure could do justice in discussing the controversial obectivist thinker.
Muddled as his marital status and political career might be, Sanford hits some high notes:
I think at a fundamental level many people recognize Rand’s essential truth?government doesn’t know best. Those in power in Washington?or indeed in Columbia, S.C.?often lead themselves to believe that our prosperity depends on their wisdom. It doesn’t. The prosperity and opportunity we enjoy comes ultimately from the creative energies of the country’s businessmen, entrepreneurs, investors, marketers, and inventors. The longer it takes this country to reawaken to this reality, the worse we?and in turn, our children’s standard of living?will be.
