"Stephen Goldstein does to Ayn Rand acolytes what Stephen Colbert does to Bill O'Reilly.
Atlas Drugged is the most unflinching satire of the Right I've ever read. Goldstein has a mellifluous voice, and he puts it to deliciously ruthless use. Conservatives and libertarians will complain that it's unrealistically over-the-top, and so-called "centrists" will complain that it's unnecessarily partisan, but as shown in recent
interviews with and
stories about the true Randites in the top 1 percent, this book is closer to nonfiction than...well, than any of us should be comfortable with. And that's the point. You shouldn't be comfortable with the status quo. You shouldn't condone sociopathic greed, much less succumb to it. To do so is to violate the very moral precepts that make our civilization possible. Goldstein's achievement here is to show us a world without those precepts and to challenge us to prevent it from becoming a reality." -- Anthony W. Orlando,
South Florida Sun-Sentinel op-ed columnist, Wharton-and-LSE-educated economic historian, and Los-Angeles-based businessman
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