• • • The other high-profile Ayn Rand acolyte 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Paul Ryan  |Ron Johnson  |Video  | When we think about high-profile members of Congress who seem to enjoy Ayn Rand and Objectivism a little too much, we tend to focus on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). It is, after all, the failed vice presidential candidate who credits Rand for inspiring his political career and who required his interns to read "Atlas Shrugged."

But while Ryan has begun distancing himself from his Objectivist allies, and his boosters have characterized his time as a Rand acolyte as "an embarrassing past flirtation," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) isn't embarrassed at all [...].