I was going to com­ment on a recent edi­to­r­ial (Kay S. Hymowitz, Free­dom Fetishists, Com­ment. Sept. 2007, at 50, avail­able at http://​www​.com​men​tary​magazine​.com/​c​m​/​m​a​i​n​/​v​i​e​w​A​r​t​i​c​l​e​.​h​tml ?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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