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Entry: The Day I Met Ayn Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_day_i_met_ayn#20787 Post contents: Al, read Christopher Hitchen's book on Mother Teresa. Very revisionist take on her. She was preaching anti-birth control in Calcutta ! How dumb is that ? This whole exchange reminds me of an anecdote Babs Branden told at an NBI lecture many years ago. During the Korean War they got a friend to see why Truman was wrong to nationalize the steel industry, explained the broad principles of individual property rights. The next week the same person came back asking what was wrong with Truman nationalizing the iron & coal industries ! Peikoff said that's it is wrong to spend too much time on pragmatist anti-intellects who are unable to think beyond newspaper headline concretes. Sent at: 2008 05 16