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Ayn Rand: A Centennial Appreciation
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Born in Russia on February 2, 1905, the late novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand would eventually emigrate to the United States and make an indelible mark on intellectual history. (She died in 1982.) As we celebrate the centennial of her birth, it is fitting to recall Rand's unique contribution to the defense of capitalism as expressed in her magnum opus, the best-selling novel Atlas Shrugged.
In 1945, when Rand began outlining that work, she made a self-conscious decision to create a "much more 'social' novel than The Fountainhead."1 She wished to focus not simply on the "soul of the individualist," which The Fountainhead had dramatized so well, but to proceed "from persons, in …
