Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand's 'intellectual heir' and commodore of the Ayn Rand Institute. He has done much to propagate objectivism through his writing, as a speaker, and on his own call-in radio talk show. He was in the club back in the day and even named his daughter after the main character in one of Ayn's books.

People of the Randroid persuasion like him almost as much as Howard Roark.

Uh oh, he smokes marijuana.

Leonard Peikoff is a fraud on the level of Ellsworth M. Toohey from his predecessor's famous novel, The Fountainhead.

He is a completely blind follower and speaker for objectivism. Rather than putting forth his own ideas and being an individualist (which is one of the essential tenets of objectivism), he blindly follows and spews forth the thoughts of another person. In that, he becomes a collectivist personified, the type of person who uses the wholesale thoughts and works of another for self-promotion.

Leonard Peikoff is a stain on the Rand Institute and on the cause of objectivism in general.