Ed Hudgins Reports from the Front

Ed Hudgins, director of The Objectivist Center's Washington office, has launched yet another form of outreach to disseminate Ayn Rand's philosophy. In cooperation with Shawn Klein, director of TOC's Web site, he is e-mailing out brief comments concerning current events. The comments are called "Report from the Front," and Hudgins issues them approximately on a weekly basis.

His first report, "Candles and Hamburgers," compared federal food regulators to the rulers in Rand's novella Anthem, who take fifty years to replace torches with the new technology of candles. Hudgins noted that the Department of Agriculture, after some forty years of testing, had recently lifted its ban on the use of irradiated beef in the nation's schools.

Another "Report" skewered Alabama's Republican governor, Bob Riley, for trying to justify the largest tax hike in his state's history by appealing to Christian injunctions about caring for the poor.

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