• • David’s Bookclub: Hard Times 
David Frum, Daily Beast Atlas Shrugged  |Egoism  |Going Galt  | Charles Dickens' Hard Times is very much a novel of its times, and yet page after page seems written as a direct commentary on our own. It's not Dickens' finest work, but it may be one of his most clairvoyant. Published in 1854, it reads in large parts as a prebuttal of a novel published almost exactly a century later, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.   Published: 2012-09-24