McArdle relished the excitement of protesting once, she recalls, she was nearly hit by a policeman during a 1991 protest organized by ACT-UP. She followed in their footsteps, becoming a campus activist in college at the University of Pennsylvania. Growing up on the Upper West Side, McArdle was “a lady of the left, doyenne of popular protests and die-ins.” Her father was a political appointee in Ed Koch’s mayoralty, and an aunt was “high up” in the Clinton administration. ![]() The devotees of the party out of power are insane.” She took her pseudonym from the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged, solely to irk a frequent commenter on a New York Times Internet forum who smeared anyone to the “right of Chairman Mao” as a “Randroid.” Her most famous utterance, known in the blogosphere as “Jane’s Law,” takes a “pox on both their houses” stance: “The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. She’s the “black sheep” of her “rabid Democrat” family. McArdle has something of a contrarian streak. A libertarian who “doesn’t care about the income tax,” she may well be the world’s only liberaltarian.” Although her experience in journalism was limited to a stint as gossip columnist for her business school’s newspaper, she landed her first “real” job as a journalist with the Economist, where she covers American economic policy. McArdle, aka Jane Galt (or more recently “McMegan”), the proprietress of the popular group blog Asymmetrical Information, is an oddity in more ways than one. Over six feet tall with fair skin and delicate features, she resembles “an overgrown elf,” she says.
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