• 1:41:30 - 1:43:53
Shamangineer | Fascism: The History, The Psychology, & The Re-emergence
Ayn Rand's Admiration for Serial Killer William Hickman
In the late 1920s, Ayn Rand expressed intense admiration in her private journals for the serial killer William Edward Hickman. She praised Hickman for having "no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred" and modeled her early literary protagonists on his "innate psychology of Superman." This connection suggests that Rand's idealized individualists were rooted in a pathological lack of empathy for others.