The Primitive Ideology

Corey Robin at The Nation likens the late Ayn Rand’s continued success in America to the same misguided and lazy analysis that has made Glenn Beck a popular voice. “An idealist of the most primitive sort, Rand took a century of socialist dichotomies and flattened them. Small wonder so many have accused her of intolerance: when heaven and earth are pressed so closely together, where is there room for dissent?”