 Block later attended a luncheon with Rand, Nathaniel Branden, and Leonard Peikoff at which Branden suggested that Block read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand and "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt.He says that the final push to his conversion came from having met Austrian School anarcho-capitalist theorist Murray Rothbard.Though a committed anarchist and, unlike the Objectivist followers of Ayn Rand, ultimately opposed to limited or minimal government; and even while criticizing her movement as "cultish", Block still describes himself as "a big fan" of Rand and considers "Atlas Shrugged" to be "the best novel ever written."