‘Don’t call me a crypto-Nazi’ the lost heart of political debate

The article mentions this epic intellectual clash but fails to make the connection to today. This battle continues between the ideas of Immanual Kant and Ayn Rand. Philosophically the battle is over the Primacy of Consciousness (Plato/Kant) and the Primacy of Existence (Aristotle/Rand). The future of Western Civilization hangs in the balance.