Hitchens doesn't understand Rand's definition of selfishness. He subsequently mocks it in a false context. Then, his audience snickers as the falsehood becomes contagious. Hitchens did nothing more than show how simple writing off the work of a genius has been for so many like him throughout the ...
Cadenzas are inherently improvisational; credit all to Rosenthal for that gem at the end. I can't imagine how my professors would react to that. Maybe Emerson was right, "Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints".
Hitchens doesn't understand Rand's definition of selfishness. He subsequently mocks it in a false context. Then, his audience snickers as the falsehood becomes contagious. Hitchens did nothing more than show how simple writing off the work of a genius has been for so many like him throughout the ...