Karl Steel reviewed Mean Girl by Lisa Duggan
some notes on Rand at Brooklyn College etc
Rand gave several talks at Brooklyn College some 60 years ago, in a cape and with a cigarette holder decorated with a dollar sign, and that a pirated Italian translation of her We the Living was made into a film, Noi Vivi, that won the prize at the Venice Film Festival of 1942, before the fascists decided it wasn't fascist enough and pulled their support
also interesting: Duggan roots her reading of Rand in Rand's comparison of a killer, William Hickman, a "nietzschean superman." Striking how the revolutionary left (eg Walter Benjamin, Richard Wright) and the right each admire the great criminal for their freedom and indifference to social rules. Freedom is an empty value.
Blames Rand for Neoliberalism, which is now the Great Enemy of the Humanities Left.
