"Winners Deserve to Be Winners Because They Are Winners"

"'The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,' Paul Ryan said in 2009.  'And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.' In time for Team Romney’s vetting process, the freshly-minted V.P. nominee has since walked back his devotion to Rand and her philosophy, telling National Review that an admiration for the mid-century Soviet émigré does not 'suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.'

"Wherever Ryan currently stands on Objectivism, which Rand invented, it’s worth reviewing the basics of the world’s greediest philosophy."

In The New Republic, Simon van Zuylen-Wood names "The Ten Strangest Things About Objectivism."

Ann Friedman at New York calls Paul Ryan "Your Annoying Libertarian Ex-Boyfriend."

David Stockman in The New York Times says that Ryan "is preaching the same empty conservative sermon."

John Nichols at The Nation writes that Wisconsinite Ryan is against the "Wisconsin Idea."

Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic argues that Ryan makes for a poor Randian.

In The New Republic, Jennifer Burns traces Ayn Rand's influence over the past fifty years.