• • • Will Idaho Kids be Forced to Read ‘Atlas Shrugged?’ 
Zachary Leeman, Breitbart Ayn Rand Institute  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Individualism  |Paul Ryan  |Rand Paul  |Yaron Brook  | Many Libertarians and Tea Party conservatives would be happy at the thought of high school students reading something like Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged as a requirement for their English classes. However, even the most modest fan of Rand's Objectivist ideology can see the irony in a lawmaker setting a new law forcing children in public schools to read the novel and pass an examination on it. [....] Yaron Brook, the Ayn Rand Institute’s executive director, summed it up best when he said that lawmakers should not be making reading requirements for our students.   Published: 2013-02-10