![]() ![]() ![]() I gave an example of it just last week, when I discussed the life and career of Isabel Paterson. Regular listeners to this series know what I mean by indirect influence. This week, I'd like to talk about a writer whose level of influence has been much more modest, but whose indirect influence has nevertheless been considerable. In earlier podcasts in this series, I've already discussed two such figures: Ayn Rand, whose 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, is, arguably, one of the half-dozen most important libertarian works of the 20th century, and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the professor of philology at Oxford whose giant fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings, published just a few years before Atlas Shrugged, is arguably the most culturally influential single novel published in English in the 20th century. But surely one part of the libertarian tradition belongs to novelists and other fiction writers. When we think of the libertarian tradition, we tend naturally to think of political philosophers and economists of the past. ![]()
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