Let you in on a secret...reading Hayek, for the most part, is better than camomile tea if you’re having trouble settling at midnight.
And Rand was a decent essayist. She was writing for an entirely different audience, then. Much more accessible...and she remembers what paragraphs are for.
There’s a small, hard-core, unthinking cult here on FR that rose around her about 2002-2003 or so. A real bunch of loons, then and now. You’ve been around long enough to remember their rise and ceaseless noise, hm?
Most of her followers are barely literate. I love flushing them out; they’re so easily irritated, but not very clever.
You been reading Peter Rabbit lately?
The barely literate couldn’t read her works. Some of her critics,on this board, otoh.............