I hadn't realized that Alan Greenspan married one of Ayn Rand's cronies. He wrote a letter to the editor which says this:

‘Atlas Shrugged’ is a celebration of life and happiness. Justice is unrelenting. Creative individuals and undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment. Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should.

Interesting logical gap between those last two remarks. I also note the apparent leap of thought contained in this lone paragraph from the Times article:

“Rand believed that there is right and wrong,” he [James M. Kilts] said, “that excellence should be your goal.”

Is that meant to be a rephrasing? I always find myself doing a double-take when reading Rand's work or the things people say about it. What did she say? Does that follow?

This reminds me that I highly recommend the film A Sense of Life for shedding some perspective on Rand's life and work.