In a Nov. 19 press release, the U.S. Postal Service announced that among the new commemorative stamps released next year will be one honoring Ayn Rand, the sixteenth author to appear in the "literary arts" series.
Say what? It's hard to imagine a more hilarious fate for the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, who made a cult out of rugged individualism, than to be memorialized by the ultimate symbol of government bureaucracy. Next thing you know, the Washington, D.C., Metro will be renamed the Hayek Public Transit System.