"I swear – by my life and my love of it – that I shall never live my life for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live his life for mine."        Undoubtedly one of the most controversial, hated, and loved figures of the 20th century, Ayn Rand dedicated her work  to promotion of individual rights and rationality over group rights and emotion. The particular way in which she approached this conflict was, itself, a deeply personal and emotional one: her family had suffered considerably during the conversion of [ Continue reading... ]