Review

Ayn Rand's Marginalia

Edited by Robert Mayhew

Every intellectual statement Ayn Rand encountered elicited a passionate response from her. When reading books or articles, she conveyed such responses, to herself, in the form of margin notes (or marginalia). In this volume, they are now conveyed to her readers.

These notes are not idle jottings, but a trove of serious, pithy observations – many on issues she never publicly addressed. She comments on hundreds of selections from over 20 authors, from Ludwig von Mises to Friedrich Hayek to Bishop Fulton Sheen. Books include: Aristotle, Human Action, Time Will Run Back, The Conscience of a Conservative and Envy. Both her notes and the text to which they refer are contained in this intellectual gold mine.

(240 pages)

Books

Aristotle by Randall. A summary of the main achievements of Aristotle's systematic philosophy, particularly his reality-centered and life-centered orientation.
Human Action, Ludwig von Mises. A systematic and comprehensive treatise on Economics covering all major topics, unrivalled before or since. Mises investigates, integrates, and defends every facet of the economics of Capitalism, the only political system which can even give rise to a science such as economics. [Caveat: Although Mises' economic views are sound, one should take care to excise his philosophic views; the methodology he practices is correct, but his philosophic exposition and defense of that methodology is not.] Review by Rob Tarr

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