Miss Rand has given me the right to name that which I infinitely would have preferred to leave unnamed, out of respect for her privacy. I am obliged to report what was in that written paper of mine, in the name of justice and of self-defense.
I don't know what implication other people were probably reading from the description "irrational and so offensive to [Rand]" but I figure he's saying: you might think I was advocating stealing, or killing someone, or something like that, so I need to tell you what it was, so you don't think it's something like that. I feel some sympathy for that.
I still need to listen to a speech by Branden that siderea recommended. Maybe I'll cohere a point of view about Branden beyond "he was an Objectivist and he and Ayn Rand had a pretty eyebrow-raising schism".
defending??? Nathaniel Branden
Miss Rand has given me the right to name that which I infinitely would have preferred to leave unnamed, out of respect for her privacy. I am obliged to report what was in that written paper of mine, in the name of justice and of self-defense.
I don't know what implication other people were probably reading from the description "irrational and so offensive to [Rand]" but I figure he's saying: you might think I was advocating stealing, or killing someone, or something like that, so I need to tell you what it was, so you don't think it's something like that. I feel some sympathy for that.
I still need to listen to a speech by Branden that siderea recommended. Maybe I'll cohere a point of view about Branden beyond "he was an Objectivist and he and Ayn Rand had a pretty eyebrow-raising schism".