Flutterby™! :

Thanks to Ian, Nathaniel Branden's Judgement Day is on my "to read" list, and via Arts & Letter's Daily comes a Lingua Franca article on Ayn Rand's inroads into academia which includes a long history of Objectivism as a movement, including some analysis of the current trend to incorporate portions into academia, and some notes which seemed apropos to my current musings:

"Unfortunately, people who try to evade reality in these ways do not just die off from sheer stupidity. Through force and fraud, they devour the products of those who create and manufacture."