If you know _The Virtue of Selfishness_ and _Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal_ then you have read many of the primary articles in this periodical essays by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Joan Blumenthal, and others (including Alan Greenspan). But much more awaits...

My local university library let me check this out for 24 hours, even though it is shelved as a bound periodical. I was pleasantly surprised by essays that I had forgotten. Ayn Rand's brilliant and insightful essays hallmark these pages -- but they are not alone.

Find this in a library. Perhaps, your local librarian can help you get an "Inter-Library Loan", called an I-L-L in the trade. You will be delighted.

I found it thrilling that Nathaniel Branden wrote about the success of Objectivism 40 years ago by citiing sales of Atlas Shrugged in the hundreds of thousands, knowing that today the numbers are in the millions.

Ayn Rand's opinion of Barry Goldwater in 1964 rings true for politicians today such as Paul Ryan and Randall Paul who also may be presidential candidates.

Page 1 of most issues presented "Check Your Premises" by Ayn Rand wherein she identified the philosophical problems at root in the issues of the day.

Those issues are surprisingly modern, as how could they not be? The basic principles of philosophy cannot change and the trajectory of our political society certainly has not.

Yet, as predicted back then, today, two generations of people have been influenced by the works of Ayn Rand. The cultural effects are so easy to find that we miss them. College professors back then across the nation complained that Ayn Rand held more sway with their students than did J. D. Salinger. Intellectuals bemoaned the fact that running for Congress GORE VIDAL saw fit to denounce (and thus further publicize) Ayn Rand. And here we are today with Paul Ryan backpedaling... after Ron Paul speaks at the 50th Anniversary of Atlas Shrugged.

But politics is too easy, being the Lego Blocks of Euclidean geometry... "Who is the Final Authority in Ethics?" Ayn Rand said that reality is the only arbiter. In other essays she actually denied the validity of "Objectivist" philosophy: all that exists are Right and Wrong -- and the Wrong does not exist on its own, but only as a denial of the Right.

Get this. Get the Objectivist magazine. Get the Ayn Rand Letter. Read the original words for yourself.