Thomas had his own clerks watch the 1949 movie The Fountainhead, a dramatization of Ayn Rand’s novel extolling individualism. (The hero is an architect who refuses to bend to conformity.) On the Court, Thomas was content to be a judicial loner, to the right of Scalia. He wanted to restore “the Constitution in Exile” by discerning the intent of the Founders and stripping away the layerings of post–New Deal activist judges.61
