There's a good post on Ayn Rand...

...today in FrumForum, "Coming to Grips with My Ayn Rand Phase," by Alex Knepper. I agree with Knepper that Rand got much of it right. Where I differ with Objectivists is that I don't think she got everything right.

I especially liked this insight of Knepper's at the end of the piece:

I know many people, young and old, who claim to have entered and exited “Ayn Rand phases” in their youth. It is interesting that one rarely encounters a person who says that he went through a “Burke phase” or a “Plato phase.” If one becomes less enamored of Plato’s arguments, he simply says that there is much merit in Plato but that he has been persuaded that his arguments are ultimately incomplete.

This is, I think, a mature way of transitioning out of a ‘Rand phase.’ To cast off Rand forever and spit on her insights — which really were often quite brilliant and which she often stood nearly alone on the right in making — is to engage in the same kind of all-or-nothing mentality that one erred in by embracing her unquestioningly.