http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2013/02/06/bill-would-require-every-high-school-student-in-idaho-to-read-atlas-shrugged Comments On: Bill Would Require Every High School Student in Idaho to Read <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
So, what's Atlas Shrugged about again? I forgot.
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I'd rather have kids read a political book they despise, rather than some two centuries old garbage that's completely irrelevant in modern society, but selected only because it’s generally acceptable to a good portion of society. At minimum, after these kids read it they’ll be able to refute it and point to its plain stupidity. Teenagers can deal with this, and it’s not like they’d be reading “Capitalism: the unknown ideal.”

This book has substantial value to enough people in society that a major political figure, the guy running as Vice President, actually cited his knowledge of this text as an emblem of why he deserves support. I think that’s substantial, and I think this book is worthy of Oregon students reading it too.
Posted by fidelity_axiom]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:27:45 -0800 Portland Mercury 2)Ayn Rand is overrated and that novel sucks
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