Reddit reviews Understanding Objectivism: A Guide to Learning Ayn Rand's Philosophy

Also, this just came out yesterday, but it seems to be more of a companion to his other book, rather than a replacement.

> edit: Seriously people? This isn't even pro-Ayn Rand. Hell, none of the posts in this topic are pro-Ayn Rand. Yet you folks are burying anything but "LOL AYN RAND" type posts and upvoting blatant lies with no substance. And you wonder why we get so many complaints about /r/politics? Grow up.

It's an intellectual pathology of a partisan hivemind.

Ayn Rand is an intellectual figure that the left just doesn't come to grips with; she doesn't fit the stereotypical model of the intellectually-pathological right-winger who is easy to demolish. It's pretty much nothing but ignorant strawman attacks when it comes to opposition to the real Rand.

Because the opposition to Rand is so pathetic on so many intellectual levels, her influence will only grow.

EDIT: And it's not like there's things she said that aren't open to strong criticism, either; but her opposition is so lacking in intellectual credibility you wouldn't be able to tell the good criticism from the bad if you weren't already strongly familiar with her system of ideas. The standard crap flung at her is about as bad as what you'd expect from right-wing crap-flinging at Marx. (I'd say they also fling crap at Chomsky, but they seem to just ignore Chomsky and go on shouting "USA! USA! USA!" at anything and everything the USA does.)

>Minor correction: 'Understanding Objectivism' was a lecture series, so it's not something you'd read.

It's been in print for nearly 3 years now.