The Culture Edit Our weekly culture newsletter – from books and art to pop culture and memes – sent every Friday. Green Times The New Statesman’s weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. By fighting to protect nature, and against the US’s white, militarist monoculture, she said, they too were akin to savages: irrational, fearful, reliant on group identities instead of on tough, self-centred amoralism. But in the 1960s, as the New Left challenged American conservatism, she extended the charge of primitivism to feminists, ecologists and multiculturalists. ![]() In the lexicon of Rand’s philosophy, “cowering before nature” is what primitive peoples do (she classified Arabs and Native Americans among others as primitive). He declares that man exists in order to serve others. The parasite lives second-hand… The basic need of the second-hander is to secure his ties with men in order to be fed. You will get the drift of it from just one passage: “The creator lives for his work. ![]() ![]() His twice-yearly ritual is to read a defiant speech from Rand’s The Fountainhead. The Health Secretary is a lifelong devotee of Ayn Rand, whose philosophy glorifies the selfish brutality of capitalism. Sajid Javid has apologised for accusing the British people of “cowering” from Covid-19.
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