THE THINGS YOU LEARN IN THE WASHINGTON POST: “Did you know that the incoming Trump administration is an Objectivist conspiracy intended to install a cabal of Ayn Rand ‘acolytes’ at the highest levels of the United States government?,” Robert Tracinski asks in the Federalist, adding “Neither did I, and I actually am an Objectivist.”

Plus this: “Oh, no! Important figures in the new administration have been influenced by an author who advocated freedom. And integrity. Does that perhaps sound a little less frightening?”

Read the whole thing.

Related: Kevin D. Williamson on The Parochial Progressive Obsession with Ayn Rand.