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Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute and Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, offered another review appearing in ''Investors Business Daily'' on July 20, 2010.<ref name=koren>Brook Y, [http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=540970 Atlas Shrugged's Timeless Moral: Profit-Making is Virtue, not Vice]," ''Investors Business Daily'', 20 July 2010.</ref> In it, Brook holds that the hypothetical political situation that Rand portrayed is remarkably similar to the actual political situation in the [[United States]] under the [[Barack Hussein Obama]] administration. Furthermore, the responses to the crisis follow the same process in real life as in the novel, almost as if the American people really had elected [[Mr. Thompson]] as [[President of the United States]], and [[Wesley Mouch]] really had been appointed "Economics Czar", with a willing Congress following his every recommendation as though it were an order. He further credits this situation with the reported sales of 500,000 copies of ''Atlas Shrugged'' in 2009.

Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute and Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, offered another review appearing in ''Investors Business Daily'' on July 20, 2010.<ref name=koren>Brook Y, [http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=540970 Atlas Shrugged's Timeless Moral: Profit-Making is Virtue, not Vice]," ''Investors Business Daily'', 20 July 2010.</ref> In it, Brook holds that the hypothetical political situation that Rand portrayed is remarkably similar to the actual political situation in the [[United States]] under the [[Barack Hussein Obama]] administration. Furthermore, the responses to the crisis follow the same process in real life as in the novel, almost as if the American people really had elected [[Mr. Thompson]] as [[President of the United States]], and [[Wesley Mouch]] really had been appointed "Economics Czar", with a willing Congress following his every recommendation as though it were an order. He further credits this situation with the reported sales of 500,000 copies of ''Atlas Shrugged'' in 2009.

The one character that he clearly identifies as a metaphor for most productive citizens in modern America is [[Henry Rearden]], the novel's true hero. [[John Galt]], the anti-villain who encourages Rearden and many others like him to go on [[strike]], receives no mention. Brook does not want to call such a strike; he wants to persuade the American electorate to, in effect, vote Mr. Thompson out of office, fire Wesley Mouch, and allow Henry Rearden to run his steel mill without any further government interference. Therefore he quotes extensively from Rearden's counterargument before the administrative-law court that tried him under the Fair Share Law. He also quotes [[Francisco d'Anconia]], though not by name, for his observation that the most admirable quality of Americans is the notion of "making money," a phrase that clearly implies that wealth is created, and that its distribution is not a zero-sum game.

The one character that he clearly identifies as a metaphor for most productive citizens in modern America is [[Henry Rearden]], the novel's true hero. [[John Galt]], the anti-villain who encourages Rearden and many others like him to go on [[strike]], receives no mention. Brook does not want to call such a strike; he wants to persuade the American electorate to, in effect, vote Mr. Thompson out of office, fire Wesley Mouch, and allow Henry Rearden to run his steel mill without any further government interference. Therefore he quotes extensively from Rearden's counterargument before the administrative-law court that tried him under the Fair Share Law. He also quotes [[Francisco d'Anconia]], though not by name, for his observation that the most admirable quality of Americans is the notion of "making money," a phrase that clearly implies that wealth is created and that its distribution is not a [[zero-sum game]].

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