Rights and Rands

This is why although I like Ayn Rand in small doses, in no way do I subscribe to her entire philosophy:

Ayn Rand was no fan of C.S. Lewis. She called the famous apologist an “abysmal bastard,” a “monstrosity,” a “cheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-meta­physical mediocrity,” a “pickpocket of concepts,” and a “God-damn, beaten mystic.” (I suspect Lewis would have particularly relished the last of these.)

Also, remember during the past presidential campaign when liberals were trying to tar Paul Ryan as a Randian, marching in lockstep with her atheistic philosophy.  Ryan said that although he found Rand to have some decent teachings, he rejected her teaching in whole.  He looked instead to Thomas Aquinas, a far superior teacher.