Why Anthony Daniels Smears Ayn Rand

By Alan Germani

In his recent New Criterion article “Ayn Rand: Engineer of Souls,”¹ Anthony Daniels, better known by his pseudonym Theodore Dalrymple, attacks the well-known novelist/philosopher as being, among other things, prone to “crude” errors, a “rationalist who was not entirely rational,” “adept at self-deception,” “incapable of seeing the contradictions in her o…