Reason‘s Cathy Young explores the philosophy and person of Ayn Rand nearly twenty five years after her death. I must admit, I was enchanted when I read The Fountainhead, and that led, in part, to my brief affair with Libertarianism. But as Young points out, Rand had no time for compassion, and not everyone who fails in the free market does so of their own volition. Young does a nice job exploring the person of Rand, and how even she had problems living the life she espoused in her books.

Posted on 4 February 2005