The brilliant Roderick Long put his finger on it in his blogpost A View to a Kill: he crystallized what I have long sensed about Rand but had been unable to put into words: that one of her flaws, one trait that helps explain some of her ill-thought-out views, is her impatience. Notes Long: In general Rand tended to be rather cavalier with questions of casuistry (the application of moral principles to hard cases) – a symptom, perhaps, of what I’ve long considered her chief philosophical failing: impatience. Elsewhere in the Q & A book she notes that “if there’s … Continue reading Rand and Patience