When Giving Is Smart and When It Isn’t | Lawrence W. Reed

When Giving Is Smart and When It Isn’t | Lawrence W. Reed: Sometimes Ayn Rand is misunderstood as an opponent of charitable giving, so intensely selfish that she couldn’t countenance one person doing a good thing for another. Her hero in Atlas Shrugged, John Galt, tells Dagny Taggart, “I’ll warn you now that there is one word which is forbidden in this valley: the word ‘give.’”