That article listed off a bunch of businessmen I’ve never heard of and right-wing politicians who pander to anti-intellectuals. And Greenspan. I’m not seeing that as reason to read her. Her fiction’s basically ham-fisted Jack Chick tracts for her simple-minded views. Any fictional work in which a character delivers a seventy page monologue is very thinly veiled propaganda, and terrible fiction.
I read more of her “philosophical” writing (mostly for entertainment). Her attempts as serious philosophical writing made her look like a talented fiction writer in comparison. I was never able to finish a book, despite them being so bad they were generally pretty funny. I’d usually either hit a tautology presented as a deep insight (A=A) that was spun into all sorts of magical thinking, or hit a passage where she stepped way over the line as a racist/terrible person such as calling Japanese people savages in mud holes (in Philosophy, Who Needs It) and would go do something else.
