In a podcast interviewing the head of the conservative Heritage Foundation, Dr. Jordan Peterson articulates his collectivist conservative philosophy and why he sees it opposed to Ayn Rand’s philosophy. Like all collectivists, his arguments are based on straw man misrepresentations of rational individualism. The Ayn Rand Institute makes a priority to correct popular misrepresentations of Ayn Rand. To that end, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer will defend Rand against Peterson’s crude takedown of Rand’s philosophy, and expose what it means about the sorry intellectual state of the contemporary conservative movement.