The Hymowitz Editorial
I was going to comment on a recent editorial (Kay S. Hymowitz, Freedom Fetishists, Comment. Sept. 2007, at 50, available at http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.html ?id=10925) that paints Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism in an unpleasant color and with a crude brush. I spent several hours mulling over what I wanted to say about it. But in the end, I decided I really had very little to say that hadn’t already been said. That little boils down to this: Intellectual sloppiness begets intellectual sloppiness. Hymowitz should have done some real research, instead of relying on a few prominent Libertarians’ warped interpretations of Rand’s philosophy, before purporting to speak with [ . . . ]
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