"
 No, I do think that Wikipedia should mention this effort on Buckley's part and have not said otherwise. Absolutely. Buckley's attempt to read Rand out spanned his whole career, N.R. articles through the 1960s, the ""RIP"" at her death, and straight up to his book Getting It Right. It's not only important to Buckley's own history but to the history of the American Intellectual Right. Rand's friends and students influenced important people on the Goldwater campaign, in the Reagan Administration, and in the media, such as Limbaugh, Beck, Stossel, Napolitano, Neal Boortz, etc., who have all cited her repeatedly, recently and favorably, recommending the very book that the Buckley/Chambers's review was all about. No, Rand was not a ""conservative"" and my admiration of Rand, though contextual, includes respect for the fact that she never called herself a ""conservative"" and never would have wanted to be part of such a movement. She doesn't get to decide these things any more than Buckley does, however, and it is Rand's actual, important and on-going influence among self-described conservatives that determines this. Limbaugh, for example, has extensively quoted from Atlas Shrugged on his air  without qualification  and more than once. Even Sean Hannity on his Fox program has favorably mentioned the new Atlas Shrugged movie. Tea Party activists cite Rand much more than they do Buckley, and carry photos of Rand at their demonstrations. Times have changed since Buckley's attempt.-  "