Jerome Tuccille: Rand, Rothbard and the LP's Big Moment

In 1972, Jerome Tuccille published It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand, his memoir of the libertarian movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Palling around with the likes of economist Murray Rothbard, former Goldwater speechwriter Karl Hess, and others, Tuccille sought to fashion a left-right coalition between elements of the New Left and and the Old Right.

It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand is at once whimsical and moving, poignant and penetrating in its insights about political movements and personal failures. Re-released last year in a new and expanded edition last year, it remains required reading for anyone interested in the libertarian movement—or the American political scene of the past 40 years.

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[djangothecat]

What the fuck is this idiot talking about. I'm a homosexual with a mustache and I would love to live in Galt's Gulch.

[zombiechaddy]

Maybe I missed something in Atlas Shrugged about gays and people with facial hair...how would Galt's Gulch not welcome them?

[goodatbasebal]

Just let them talk... When left alone, Leftists always make themselves look stupid without anyone's help...

[UrbyKris]

Reason TVs a joke anyway 

[Nintendomanwill]

@djangothecat

I find his complete lack to understand Anarcho Capitalism and its legal philosophy (the Rule of Law, by market selection of impartial law, not government selection of partial law) particularly galling. It's easy to criticise if you don't understand. It's purely religious to want the State, an initiation of violence and coercion, a reigning peace gained by victory in tribal warfare not by rule of law, and a destroyer of peace between Statist jurisdictions, to legislate.

[RadioFreeWisconsin]

I love how ReasonTV allows people to criticize Libertarian thinkers.

[bynumjimmy]

It seems that Tuccille is just a critic. Someone who tries to gain acclaim by commenting on the work of others...much like Ellsworth Toohey or Peter Keating. Maybe there is more to Tuccille, but in this video he comes across as someone without much supporting his arguments. Maybe that was ReasonTV's reason.

[MrBlakskwrl]

Who is this douche bag and what makes him such an expert. I don't think he understands anarcho-capatalism in the slightest. His argument with the drainage pipe is We Todd Ed. Comparing Rand to the Taliban.....HOW? What kind of drugs do you have to take to end up with this mind?

[TheLegalImmigrant05]

Agree 100%

[Forlo12345]

A looney? Ayn Rand was NOT a looney! Just the fact that he would suggest it is insulting!

[freeyourcrt]

More like a collection of disinformation.