Reason To Worry?

June, 2012

David Kelley of the Atlas Society claims Thomas Frank is wrong to describe Ayn Rand's beliefs as Nietzschean (Reader Response, April) because "her vision of individualism, including the pursuit of rational self-interest, had nothing to do with Nietzsche's vision of the super­man seeking power over others." The Nietzschean superman isn't about thewill to power but about living beyond and above the morality of other men, i.e., rational self-interest. I have friends who seem to have a bet...