[laredo44]

Kind of sickening to read how many honors academia piled on this guy.

Two words for you: Ellsworth Toohey.

In the Fountainhead, Toohey gained a power by creating, conferring, and puffing up the importance of a number of awards on undeserving recipients.

[Sam Cree]

Yeah, Toohey and all his admirers were certainly a good illustration of "the emporer with no clothes." I guess it's fitting that similar remarks about Rawls (by SkyPilot) appear in this discussion.

One of my favorite things about "The Fountainhead" is that Rand points out that socialism destroys people's personal dreams and their ability to follow them, instead, substituting an "official" state dream for them. Eerily similar to the thinking of the Democrats.