https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/08/23/why-there-is-no-liberal-atlas-shrugged/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 05:43:33 -0400<![CDATA[Last week, we linked to Yale historian Beverly Gage&#8217;s question in Slate: &#8220;Why is there no liberal Atlas Shrugged?&#8221; As we noted at the time, this topic didn&#8217;t reflect well on the denuded state of liberal education no matter how one responded to the question, but as Objectivist author Robert Tracinski writes on his Website, there are actually two liberal equivalents. Which do you prefer, fiction or non-fiction? As for the latter, Tracinski writes that the liberal Atlas Shrugged is obvious, particularly since, as Jonah Goldberg wrote in Liberal Fascism, most ideologies of the modern left are various strains of what Richard Pipes has called “heresies of socialism” &#8212; building and rebuilding counter religions to the west’s Judeo-Christian traditions. As Jonah wrote:]]>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:16:17 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2012/08/23/why-there-is-no-liberal-atlas-shrugged-n255905