Ayn Rand: the Tea Party’s Miscast Matriarch » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/27/ayn-rand-the-tea-partys-miscast-matriarch/

Ayn Rand was a writer of no value whatsoever, whether aesthetic or
intellectual. The Tea Party deserves her, but the rest of us do not.
It is not less than obscene that any educational institution that
relies even in part on public funds should ask students to consider
her work. We are threatened these days by vicious mindlessness and
this is one of its manifestations."
---SPSmith