That doesnt actually help your cause  First of all the Objectivism that Hook analyzed in her fiction is the very same Objectivism found in her nonfiction  His opinion was of Objectivism not of a particular essay or story  Hook analyzed Objectivism in terms of its core principles narrowed them down to a handful of core ones then proceded to poke holes in them  In a perfect world Rand might have read Hooks criticisms and responded by either fixing the acknowledged errors or putting up a credible defense against those arguments  We do not live in a perfect world as she did neither of those things  Such behavior would be par for the course were she an academic philosopher but she was not so she her nonfiction just codified the very same ideas that Hook had identified as erroneous failing to address any of his arguments  Youll note that Hook did not repudiate his own views once her nonfiction works came out so we can safely infer that he did not detect any significant improvement  A deeper problem is that I used Sidney Hook as but one example of academics who judged Objectivism as lacking in academic rigor  Even if you were somehow able to survive the arguments in the previous paragraph I could bring out a seemingly endless queue of academic philosophers pretty much everyone but Tara Smith and a few diehard cryptolibertarians whose views are consistent with Hooks yet were formed andor maintained after the nonfiction writings came out  As far as I can tell this is because academics react poorly to polemics and expect sound arguments  Of course you can argue that there is some other reason why academics think so little of Rands work but you cannot pretend that they hold her ideas in high esteem  Most fundamentally you cannot come up with anything that even looks like an argument for Rand being an academic philosopher so youre reduced to badfaith conspiracy theories about why the truth of the matter must not be published here  I suggest you ask yourself whether you are here to make sure the truth is written or just that Ayn Rand looks good