Journalistic Jabberwocky: The Classificatory Nonsense of Kay S. Hymowitz

Hymowitz’s classification of Ayn Rand as a libertarian is nonsense. That Rand condemned libertarianism is common knowledge.

In an article titled “Freedom Fetishists: The Cultural Contradictions of Libertarianism”— which has been published in both Commentary and the Wall Street Journal—Kay S. Hymowitz has labeled Ayn Rand a “libertarian.” This would be unworthy of comment were it not for the fact that, as Rand herself put it, “the uncontested absurdities of today are the acce…