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Entry: Whittaker Chambers Versus Ayn Rand Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/whittaker_chambers_versus_ayn_rand#7749 Post contents: Chambers' criticism strikes me as rather good: "Here occurs a little rub whose effects are just as observable in a free-enterprise system, which is in practice materialist (whatever else it claims or supposes itself to be), as they would be under an atheist socialism, if one were ever to deliver that material abundance that all promise. The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure, with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit." Raimondo: "But of course there are children in Atlas Shrugged . . . This paean to the glories of childhood—or, rather, a certain kind of childhood—starts on page 784 of the hardcover edition and continues on to another closely-printed page" - Is this sarcasm? I can't tell. Sent at: 2008 07 09