• Left nor right embracing liberty 
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Capitalism  | The right wing in the United States isn’t mostly fascist or royalists but religious and traditionalist. But since a central feature of tradition in American politics is classical liberal or libertarian, labeling champions of the fully free system “right wingers” makes a certain amount of sense. But it can also serve a dubious agenda of the Left, namely to associate free market capitalism with right wing statism, as if the likes of F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand and so on had anything at all in common with fascists and royalists.  

• People must strive for own success 
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Egoism  | A healthy ethical egoism is probably very timely by now. Sadly it has to be noted that, despite the clarity of both philosophers’ prose, the selfishness of philosophers David L. Norton and Ayn Rand is unlike the economic man type, which is not a moral thesis at all but an attempt to describe what motivates us all, all the time. The neo-Aristotelian selfishness, one that implores everyone to strive to be a happy individual, acknowledges that human beings are social — belong to families, communities, fraternities, etc. — and to strive for one’s own success in life must involve the social virtues as well as the personal ones: generosity and compassion, not only prudence and ambition. With such a morality at hand, the human race would be in far better shape than it is with all the scolding it receives for not being selfless enough.  

• Libertarianism is far from dead 
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[Freedom Communications founder R.C. Hoiles] helped to promote the few liberty-minded writers, like Ayn Rand, Isabel Paterson and Rose Wilder Lane, who arose during the 1940s, and reprinted the work of more established commentators like Albert Jay Nock.