I read the essay up to the point where you started talking about how to fix Objectivism. I stopped there for reasons that should become obvious. But I'll start with observations on your literary analysis. 1/18

I was struck by your complaint that Rand ignored politics in Atlas Shrugged, as it shows that you didn't understand how Rand wrote. Rand did not set out to write a realistic novel; AS can best be understood as a sort of science fiction or, better, fantasy, that explicates a conflict of ideas. 2/18