• • • Ayn Rand and Al Qaeda 
Evan Knappenberg, Counterpunch Alan Greenspan  |Altruism  |Atheism  |Ayn Rand Institute  |Atlas Shrugged  |The Fountainhead  |The Romantic Manifesto  |Capitalism  |Egoism  |Leonard Peikoff  |Paul Ryan  |Yaron Brook  | [M]y life has been a spotty process of embarrassing violence and rehabilitation in the aftermath of reading Rand. I personally blame Rand for my temper, which I learned to justify from an early age with the outrageous rhetoric of a “John Galt” terrorist or “Howard Roark” rapist. But it is only after my involvement in anti-terrorist operations as an intelligence analyst in the Middle East that I dare to venture the (tasteless?) comparison of Rand to Bin Laden.   Published: 2012-09-12