I keep reading conservative blogs and pundits talk about Ayn Rand like she's some sort of guru. Let me be clear, Ayn Rand is not, in any meaningful sense of the word, a conservative. Ultra-conservative and borderline anarcho-capitalist, sure, but not a conservative. Disliking FDR and Communism are not sufficient grounds to make one conservative. Spouting unsustainable, artless dogma is no better than the worst elements of liberalism. And they, at least, have compassion to stand on.

Besides that, she's an intellectually dishonest, amoral, brazen hack and, as far as I'm concerned, an embarrassment to Philosophy.