Alex Epstein of the Ayn Rand Institute was on the Thom Hartmann radio show, April 8, 2009. Hartmann brought up Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. Epstein was talking about public attitudes and the government regulations that ensued:
It was a hack pseudo-novel … and anyway, they got this from reading a novel?
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I heard that on the Thom Hartmann show. Amazing to hear that spoken with absolutely no sense of irony!
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Had it been self-deprecating humor, it would have been wickedly funny.
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