The Book Club: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand With Eric Daniels

The Book Club

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, named by readers in 1991 as the most influential book after the Bible, is a novelized warning about the allure and evils of socialism. What happens when the most productive members in society give up? How much can be asked of them before they do? Who is left to support the rest? Michael Knowles and Eric Daniels take you through Rand’s prophetic masterpiece. This episode was made possible by a generous donation from The Objective Standard Institute. In our fast-paced world, it’s tough to make reading a priority. At Thinkr.org, read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes: start your free trial today at Thinkr.org.

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0:00.0	You asked and you asked and you begged and you demanded and you shook me by my shoulders and said Michael
0:19.2	When are you doing Atlas Shrugged by Einrand on the book club?
0:25.2	Well today, my friends, is that day.
0:28.5	But first, you know, in our fast-paced world, it is tough to make reading a priority,
0:32.4	especially books that are 1,200 pages long.
0:35.0	Well, it used to be tough to make reading a priority.
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0:48.0	You can read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes, from old classics like Dale Carnegie's
0:52.1	had to win friends and influence people to recent best-sellers. of If you want to expand your horizons, if you want most importantly to sound intelligent and
1:07.8	cocktail parties, you need to go to thinker.org, that is THINKr, no e, there is no time for that. That is T-H-I-N-K-R. No-E.
1:14.0	There is no time for that.
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1:20.1	This is one of the most controversial books maybe ever written.
1:25.6	On the one hand, it sells hundreds of thousands of copies a year.
1:29.5	I think it still sells over 100,000 copies a year.
1:31.9	When it first came out, it's
1:33.0	hundreds and hundreds of thousands of copies. People love this book. A lot of
1:37.8	people on the right really love this book. Other people on the right, like
1:41.2	William F Buckley Jr., Whitaker Chambers, hated this book.
1:46.4	Buckley said he had to flog himself to read it, called it a thousand pages of ideological
1:51.6	fabulism.
1:52.5	Whitaker Chambers wrote a devastating review of it in national review.
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