The Ayn Rand Institute has backslided… ahem, I mean “clarified,” its position on foreign aid for the tsunami victims. I would have expected ARI to have more backbone than this, especially given the aggressive dogmatism that seems so prevalent over there. But then again, perhaps it is that very dogmatism that explains the backsliding: hammer home on the issues Ayn Rand wrote about, go soft on the issues she did not write about, don’t bother thinking for yourself.
Thanks to Skip Oliva at the Mises blog for the link. See his post for further discussion. As Skip and some commentators have pointed out, ARI’s “clarification” is decidedly lacking in percipient analysis.
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