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More oxford <strong>books</strong> @ www.OxfordeBook.<strong>com</strong><strong>Fore</strong> <strong>more</strong> <strong>urdu</strong> <strong>books</strong> <strong>visit</strong> <strong>www.4Urdu</strong>.<strong>com</strong>LOVE IS EXCEPTION MAKING 231generation of conservatives. Evans, an activist since his student days andthen an editor at the Indianapolis News, was to draw the line. 40But the message had shifted, and Evans’s prominent cover storyrevealed how many of Rand’s beliefs had be<strong>com</strong>e conventional conservativewisdom even as she remained, officially, persona non grata. UnlikeChambers, Evans was untroubled by her defense of capitalism and herattack on government regulation. She had, Evans wrote, “an excellentgrasp of the way capitalism is supposed to work, the efficiencies of freeenterprise, the central role of private property and the profit motive,the social and political costs of welfare schemes which seek to <strong>com</strong>pela false benevolence.” 41 He also admired her polemical fire and consistency,and defended her against Chambers’s accusation that she was anunconscious Nazi. Evans went on to argue that despite these features,Rand remained a dangerous figure for conservatives because she mixedher good qualities with the bad, namely, atheism. Her work raised several“central dilemmas of the era”: “Can faith in God be reconciled withliberty for man? Is Christian belief <strong>com</strong>patible with libertarian attachment?Is Capitalism anti-Christian?” Evans seemed confident that ageneral consensus on each had already been reached. The only problemwas that Rand answered all of these questions incorrectly. Christianitywas an essential part of the conservative and capitalist agenda. Rand, anatheist, would never quite fit in. Evans urged that conservatives makejudicious use of Rand, all the while being careful not to swallow herarguments whole. 42While Rand’s inner circle continued to fray, Objectivism in New Yorkwas reaching fever pitch. With much fanfare, in May 1967 NBI signed afifteen-year lease on offices in the Empire State Building, then the world’stallest building. Even though their offices were in the basement, it wasstill an ideal address. The lease also contained an auditorium, perfectfor large lectures and the movie showings, performances, and dancesthat were be<strong>com</strong>ing a regular part of the Institute’s offerings. New YorkNBI now coordinated Objectivist baseball games, art shows, concerts, amovie series titled “The Romantic Screen,” an annual NBI Ball, even anObjectivist European tour. For California Objectivists there was an NBIBall West. The Objectivist announced that the new auditorium would

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