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Anthem: Ayn Rand’s Dystopian Masterpiece

25 Oct 2012

Rod Long offers a very insightful reading of Ayn Rand’s Anthem: The book’s most striking feature, both stylistically and in the substance of the story, is the absence of the first-person singular. The idea of a totalitarian state suppressing subversive ideas by banning or distorting the language needed to express or even formulate it has been [...]
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Alex Tabarrok

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