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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comRADICALS FOR CAPITALISM 203activists who would influence the country’s political future. Buckley’snew intellectuals, however, would swear allegiance to God and country,rather than reason and capitalism. Although Buckley intended the neworganization to reflect the fusionist consensus of National Review, notall members of YAF were willing to go along. The organization’s firststudent head, Robert Schuchman, a Yale Law student, had written Randa gushing fan letter a year earlier, telling her, “Atlas Shrugged was a fulfillmentof a literary promise I only began to see in The Fountainhead:the promise of a logical view of existence, based on experience, a viewwhich I had always held but had never been able to verbalize.” 35 Now heand a few others fought to make Rand’s secular libertarianism a prominentpart of YAF. In a dispute over the proposed organization’s name,they prevailed against the suggested “Young Conservatives” and ensuredthat the Sharon Statement had a libertarian cast. For Schuchman andother secular libertarians, Rand’s pro-capitalist philosophy was excitingand her atheism unremarkable.Another prominent young conservative, Karl Hess, was attracted toRand specifically by her atheism. Formerly a practicing Catholic, his faithbegan to waver after he started reading Rand. He remembered, “My previousarmor of ritual and mystery were insufficient to the blows dealt it byan increasing interest in science and by the unshakeable arguments of AynRand.” Similarly Tibor Machan, a young Hungarian refugee who wouldbecome a libertarian philosopher, found Rand while he was in the throesof a religious crisis. Machan struggled against the ethical imperatives ofChristianity, which filled him with guilt, shame, and confusion. ReadingThe Fountainhead convinced him to abandon religion altogether in favorof Rand’s rational morality. A year later he told Rand, “The change in mehas been so drastic that only one who himself has gone through it couldfully understand.” He enclosed a letter he had written to his priest, drawinga thoughtful and encouraging response from Rand.Although Objectivism appeared a way to escape religion, it wasmore often a substitute, offering a similar regimentation and moralismwithout the sense of conformity. Rand’s ideas allowed students toreject traditional religion without feeling lost in a nihilistic, meaninglessuniverse. But from the inside Objectivists threw off the shacklesof family and propriety by defining themselves anew as atheists. “Lastspring I discarded my religion, and this past Fall I took the Principles