Ben Shapiro and the Garbage Smear

A Call for Accountability in Intellectual Discourse

Several weeks ago, during an interview with Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro called Ayn Rand’s philosophy of life “garbage.” To my knowledge, he has neither retracted that smear nor attempted to support the assertion—at least not beyond his disingenuous effort to equate rational egoism with hedonism, which I’ve addressed here.

I had assumed that Shapiro would has…