Are Capitalism, Objectivism, and Libertarianism Religions?
Yes!: Greenspan and Ayn Rand debunked. One might wonder what purpose is served by reprising 40-year-old book. Certainly it isn’t to make money, since the first edition was enveloped in obscurity almost from the day of its release, so much so that even Rand’s later critics rarely cite it. Ellis seems to have anticipated a similar indifference to the new edition, since this time he crammed the books entire thesis (plus much of its punctuation) into the title. Perhaps he hoped readers would get the point just from seeing the listing on websites. It can be found on plenty, because it was released as an e-book and placed in the public domain. In his introduction, Ellis gives a numbered list of reasons for writing the book, but most of these are simply part of the rehash, since with one exception they are the same reasons he gave in the original. The one additional reason in the new version rails against “some republicans, libertarians, and the current chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan G
