• • • Ayn Rand vs. the Pope 
Matthew Harwood, Salon Altruism  |Atheism  |Anthem  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Egoism  |Individualism  |Paul Ryan  |Image  | Much has already been made of Rep. Paul Ryan’s libertarian pretensions and his failure to live up to them from across the ideological spectrum (here, here, here). Yet there’s a more disturbing inconsistency that deserves more scrutiny regardless of where you find yourself on the ideological or theological spectrum. The newly christened vice presidential nominee holds two deeply contradictory and inimical materialist and spiritual worldviews represented by the objectivist philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand and the Catholic Church.   Published: 2012-08-14