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40. Bidinotto authored “Getting Away with Murder,” a 1988 Reader’s Digest article
that brought Willie Horton to the attention of presidential candidates Al Gore and
George Bush.
41. It was a libertarian truism that the Constitution was an authoritarian document,
since it had been signed by only a few persons yet claimed jurisdiction over an entire
nation. See Hard Core News, undated, postmarked November 1970, unlabeled folder,
Box 24, Evers Papers; Kerry Thornley, letter to the editors, Libertarian American 1, no. 5
(1968), 2, Box 36, Evers Papers.
42. Ayn Rand, “Apollo 11,” The Objectivist, September 1969, 709.
43. Jerome Tuccille, “Spotlighting the News,” Rational Individualist, October 1969,
5, Mises Institute.
44. Ayn Rand, “The Anti-Industrial Revolution,” The Objectivist, January 1971, 962,
978.
45. Ayn Rand, “The Anti-Industrial Revolution, Part II,” The Objectivist, February
1971, 980.
46. This distinction is made by Andrew Kirk, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth
Catalog and American Environmentalism (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007).
Whether this set of ideas transcends or represents yet another iteration of what Donald
Worster called the dialectic of “arcadian” and “imperialist” ecology is an important question
to explore. Worster, Nature’ s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1977/1994).
47. Stewart Brand, diary entries dated July 9, 1968 and August 16, 1968, Stewart Brand
Papers, Stanford University Special Collections.
48. The Last Whole Earth Catalog (Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, 1971), 185.
The catalogue included only books deemed either “useful as a tool” or “relevant to
independent education,” making mention tantamount to endorsement. It also recommended
the A Is A Directory and Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom (344).
The Atlas Shrugged excerpt was from a speech by Rand villain Floyd Ferris, in which he
tells Hank Rearden, “One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible
for men to live without breaking laws.” Rand may also have inspired Brand’s
later insistence that his hippy partners become comfortable with money and overcome
their guilt about using it to reform the world. For libertarian and counterculture
connections to cyberspace, see Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture:
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2006); John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How
the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (New York: Viking
Penguin, 2005). Rand’s intersection with the computer culture is noted in Christopher
Hitchens, “Why So Many High-Tech Executives Have Declared Allegiance to Randian
Objectivism,” Business 2.0, August/September 2001, 129–32, and is surely worth further
exploration.
49. Ayn Rand, “A Suggestion,” The Objectivist, February 1969, 595–96; Ayn Rand,
“Of Living Death,” The Objectivist, October 1968, 534. Members of Frank O’Connor’s
extended family claimed that Rand herself had an abortion in the early 1930s, which
they helped pay for. Heller, 128. Rand never mentioned this incident, but whatever
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