American political thinking is being infected by a mind-eating form of philosophic sadism sold as something called a rational virtue, the virtue of selfishness. It arises from the writings of a cult author of the 1940s and 1950s with the pen name of Ayn Rand whose ideas were conveyed into popular culture via her two […]
Sabotaging the Golden Rule: Bullies, Bigots, Narcisists and the “Philosophy” of Selfishness
