A review by dlsmall
The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis by Darryl Cunningham

3.0

Part one on Rand is pretty accurate, though for all the on-point criticism regarding her protagonists philosophies at times, I assume the author wouldn’t dispute some sympathies to those of the opposing looters/moochers. Part two is like a Frontline documentary/The Big Short mashup, and there is nothing wrong with that. Part three accurately notes the MANY shortcomings found in the conservative movement without seeing any of those in the liberal side…but such is always true for the practitioners of our two major tribes, and that building blindness that both squads seem to be so proud and defiant about is maybe a challenge that has gone past the point of no return. If the fairly objective front two sections were intended to ease a young, more impressionable reader into the propaganda of the closing section, well, we’ll-done.