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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comA ROUND UNIVERSE 141the postwar era, however, conservatism was rapidly growing in size andstrength, and Rand was no longer the sole intellectual of the crowd.One of the first libertarians Rand reached out to was Ludwig vonMises, whom she had met briefly during one of her trips east. Whileother academics interested in the free market had found a welcominghome at the University of Chicago, Mises was so far outside the economicsmainstream that no respected academic department wouldhire him. Ultimately the Volker Fund was able to secure him a visitingprofessorship at NYU, where they paid his salary (as they did forHayek at Chicago). Mises’s strongest connections were not to academiabut to Leonard Read’s Foundation for Economic Education, where hegave regular lectures and was considered an employee. 21 As his affiliationwith FEE reminded her, Rand and Mises differed on importantpoints, primarily concerning morality. Whereas outsiders saw Misesas a pro-capitalist hack, Mises firmly believed his economic theorieswere strict science, utterly divorced from his political preferences andbeliefs. Misean economics pointedly did not concern itself with morality,to Rand a dangerous failing. Still, she remained hopeful that Misesand others could be converted to her point of view. She predicted, “itwould only be a case of showing to them that I had the most consistentarguments.” 22Rand’s personal relationship with Mises was predictably rocky. Bothwere hot-tempered and principled, and tales about their conflicts werelegendary in conservative circles. Russell Kirk liked to regale his audienceswith a story about Mises taunting Rand as “a silly little Jew girl.” 23The truth as both Rand and Mises remembered it was more prosaic. Ata dinner party with the Hazlitts, Rand began, as usual, trying to convertMises to her moral position. Henry Hazlitt and Mises both assumed autilitarian stance, arguing for capitalism on the basis of its benefit tosociety. Rand was testing out some of her ideas from Atlas Shrugged,talking about how man survived only due to his mind and defining thefree use of rationality as a moral issue. According to Rand, Mises losthis patience and “literally screamed, because he was trying to prove thatwhat I was saying was the same thing as Rousseau or natural rights,and I was proving to him that it wasn’t.” The dinner ended on a tensenote, but Mises’s wife later arranged a reconciliation. Rand was notunduly troubled by the incident, for Mises simply struck her as closed