It establishes the one man who stands accused with Rand as a prime actor in the economic collapse: Alan Greenspan. The first is a biography of Rand, explaining her rise to power and her eventual collapse. Selfishness is divided into three chapters. Ayn Rand.” Oh, and did I mention? It’s a comic book. Cunningham mounts a case against Rand, finding evidence and testimony to build to an almost lawyerly case implicating her guilt in the biggest swindle of the 21st century a decent alternate title for Selfishness could be “The People Vs. It’s a book-length survey of Rand’s philosophy that also directly accuses her fans of causing the financial crisis of 2008. Ayn Rand.”īut in all my years of collecting anti-Rand rants, I’ve never seen anything quite like Darryl Cunningham’s The Age of Selfishness. All the debunking in the world seemingly can’t poke a hole in Rand’s fame.Ī decent alternate title for Selfishness could be “The People Vs. She’s treated like a legitimate philosopher by a huge percentage of the population, and her work still exerts a tremendous influence on American politics. But Rand’s books are tremendously popular every generation, like clockwork, seems to lose a significant percentage of its most impressionable thinkers to Rand. If you’ve spent any amount of time on the internet, you’ve seen plenty of arguments against Rand: her books are poorly written her ideas, though appealing to college freshmen, immediately fall apart when exposed to the real world her own biography is riddled with hypocrisy. Or more accurately, it’s one of many cogent arguments against Ayn Rand fandom. This is a cogent argument against Ayn Rand fandom. If Paul Ryan-a government bureaucrat if ever there was one-loves reading about John Galt and Hank Rearden, it’s because he doesn’t resemble them at all. Goodwin continues: Rather, they’ve typically spent their lives in the comfortable embrace of large institutions, going from school to university to corporation, or from think tank to government and back again. “ Rand’s fans are rarely the sort of intrepid, self-reliant, go-it-alone entrepreneurial heroes she writes about,” Michael Goodwin explains in the introduction to Darryl Cunningham’s new graphic novel The Age of Selfishness.
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