A hauntingly similar image is painted in one of Ayn Rand's lesser-known works of fiction.
Question: Why does anyone need a philosophy? Answer: “You have no choice about the necessity to integrate your observations, your experiences, your knowledge into abstract ideas, i.e., into principles. Your only choice is whether these principles are true or false, whether they represent your conscious, rational convictions—or a grab-bag of notions snatched at random, whose sources, …
In 1917, Bolsheviks under Lenin seized control of Russia in the famous October revolution, ending a short-lived experiment with constitutional democracy and replacing it with a one-Party socialist state. As the revolution swirled through the streets of St. Petersberg, a girl of 12 watched many of the events from the balcony of her family’s house. …
A hauntingly similar image is painted in one of Ayn Rand's lesser-known works of fiction.
