Noam Chomsky & Ayn Rand

I chanced upon the book “Hegemony and Survival- America´s quest for global domination” and reading it. Quite a typical Chomsky book. The intellect is as evident as the vitroil. Noam Chomsky´s “America” used to be  like elite fashion. But now with so many authors coming up with books critical of  G.W.Bush and the US after the Iraq episode, he seems common place.  It is easy to forget that he has been in this business (of critising since before the Vietnam war. But his writing is anything but common place. He is the most sited author as per the analysis of MIT where he works. He is in the top of many of possible author lists like most quoted author to The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by David Horowitz.  Well comparing him to Ayn Rand, they have many things in common:- popularity. Ayn Rand is also in all possible novel lists with Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead and We The living joining most list in one position or another. What the authors do share also is their East Euopean heritage. But both are intellectually so powerful and so good in what they think and what they do. Idealogically their poles apart with Chomsky heavily turing to the left while Ms.Rand is darling and idol of all conservatives(including our Wizard of Oz, Alan Greenspan). No idea whether they ever met. Did they say about each other?  What would have been their words? No idea.