I agree with Martin Morse Wooster, looking back on “It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand” in The American Enterprise, a public policy magazine, in 1998, wrote: “There are two reasons why Tuccille’s account remains fresh and valuable. First, he is an excellent stylist, who has superb control of the techniques of the New Journalism period. Second, Tuccille knows that political debates are often comic, and he has a great deal of fun lampooning the nuts and flakes who enjoy screaming at political meetings.”

But I respectfully disagree with Mr. Tuccille’s  article for the conservative magazine National Review, in which he wrote the epitaph for libertarianism as a political movement. Although still committed to its ideals, he called it “hopelessly utopian” and “an intellectual exercise, not a serious political alternative.”  We can still do this!