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