Playboy vs. National Review

It is traditional to think of magazines like Playboy as being corrupting of morals. Yet, Ayn Rand once gave an interview to Playboy magazine. On the other hand, from a letter she wrote, she seems to have despised the National Review. (And, their ex-commie editor, the traitor Wittaker Chambers, seems to have returned the derision.)

In her comments (see Letters) Rand says that she would not object to an honestly religious magazine. However, she The National Review has a heavily religious motivation, while pretending to be secular. That is dishonest. Contrary to the traditional view, the National Review is a more corrupt publication than Playboy.

Clearly, the wrong moral and political ideas can cause far more harm than viewing pictures of nudes.

Postscript: Even Venezuela's dictator Chavez realizes that the "wrong ideas" about life and philosophy can be more "corrupting" than a little nudity. A while back The Simpsons were ordered off the air, to be replaced by Baywatch!