the wind is still, in a moment it will be raging...

Today, for the first time in about a year, I heard the name of Ayn Rand. Wow. Such a high-school thing. Comically, the discussion was about intellectuals. I don't know of any respectable philosophy departments that teach her work. I think there was a class on Objectivism at Stanford once, but it was (unsurprisingly) taught by a student. An undergrad, no less. Ha. I fondly remember one famous and eminently respectable religious studies professor of mine (Thomas Sheehan) dismissing her philosophy as "garbage" during a lecture on Heideggerian authenticity. I almost lost it at that point. Too funny.

That is all.