Manuel "Manny" Klausner was one of the founding partners in Reason Enterprises, which began publishing Reason magazine in 1971, three years after the publication's creation.
After serving in a va...
Manuel "Manny" Klausner was one of the founding partners in Reason Enterprises, which began publishing Reason magazine in 1971, three years after the publication's creation.
After serving in a variety of positions with the magazine, including editor, in 1978 he co-founded the Reason Foundation with Tibor Machan and Bob Poole. He remains on the board of the Reason Foundation today, is a stalwart supporter of the Federalist Society, and practices law in Los Angeles.
"Rand is, I think, a very valuable resource in the movement for people who take liberty seriously," says Klausner. "When I was editor of Reason in the early 1970s, we got an article that was submitted that proposed a method for converting the world to libertarianism, and that was by going door-to-door and distributing to every household a copy of Atlas Shrugged. We rejected the article...but it was an example of the kind of impact Rand has had and continues to have on many many people."
Approximately six minutes. Interview by David Nott, camera by Alex Manning, and editing by Hawk Jensen.
This interview is part of the Reason.tv series Radicals For Capitalism: Celebrating the Ideas of Ayn Rand.
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Mr.davidngo4415 is right on this one, too. ):and doesn't merit all of the thumbs down:(
If one stops to analyse this scenario correctly, it comes down to cause and effect.
*Reason magazine* had everything to gain by hijacking Miss Rand's name and image for a cause that She emphatically stated as incompatible with Her Philosophy of Objectivism. This is the unfortunate anti-intellectual trap that this faction uses to gain popularity...
...and also why the Galt's Gulch refuge is closed to them.
Honey - she's essentially the founder of the Libertarian movement and an extremely important thinker and champion of freedom. Reason has done a few videos in a series on Rand recently due to the anniversary of 'Atlas Shrugged'.
The founder of Libertarianism? Not really. Objectivism yes (obviously) but not Libertarianism. Hell, Adam Smith and Thomas Paine supported Libertarian ideals (back then it was called Liberalism though) a good 150 years before Rand.
Again, I acknowledge he importance, and I do like her a fair bit, but it just seems like everything in Reason has been on Rand lately.
Yes, I should have said modern libertarianism. Anyway, I didn't mean to infer that she's the only inspiration for the movement. And Reason is commemorating 'Atlas' I believe. Take Care.
It's a timely tribute thing. They're doing videos about Rand all this month. Many 20th-century libertarians were influenced by Rand, and since Atlas Shrugged is selling so well lately and since there are two new biographies about the woman, why not make the most of it?
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):and doesn't merit all of the thumbs down:(
If one stops to analyse this scenario correctly, it comes down to cause and effect.
*Reason magazine* had everything to gain by hijacking Miss Rand's name and image for a cause that She emphatically stated as incompatible with Her Philosophy of Objectivism. This is the unfortunate anti-intellectual trap that this faction uses to gain popularity...
...and also why the Galt's Gulch refuge is closed to them.
Again, I acknowledge he importance, and I do like her a fair bit, but it just seems like everything in Reason has been on Rand lately.