Roderick Long is not an Objectivist. I don't know how you calculate Objectivist presence in academia, but I strongly suspect the numbers are growing, although

Roderick Long is not an Objectivist. I don't know how you calculate Objectivist presence in academia, but I strongly suspect the numbers are growing, although I think that growth will probably plateau soon (but maybe I'm wrong). But, that doesn't really matter. Do you not think that all academic philosophers are bought? (OK, I know what you mean, though.) views from people who are politically sympathetic to libertarianism People who are sympathetic to libertarianism are (generally) anti-Objectivist, since they are basically a splinter group off of Objectivism, so that doesn't really mean anything. Anything by Rothbard can pretty much be dismissed out of hand, especially with a factually incorrect title like that. I think I've seen it before, but I'll double check. I think I've also see Nozick's "On the Randian Argument," and found that he hadn't actually grasped AR's methodology at all and had not made a legitimate critique, but I will double check that, too.