Ayn Rand Is Dead

LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL JR. & JEFFREY A. TUCKER

IN THE Old Right, cultural conservatism came as naturally as devotion to the free market or aversion to foreign wars. But when the cold war split the Right into two camps, both sides suffered. Conservatives lost their skepticism about what Clare Boothe Luce called “globaloney”; libertarians lost their moorings to what Russell Kirk called “the permanent things.”