Her intelligence and passion are irrefutable. Her critics will merely critisize her without refutation, embarrassed by her rightness and their own defenselessness against her arguments.
Tomorrow I will search the web for more articles by her.
There is a bedrock of 'Axiomatic Truths'.
Whether you start on shaky ground....or from a fertile field....
if you are in an honest intellectual pursuit....
and if you keep digging and panning and sifting...
you will eventually arrive at this bedrock of Truth.
The start is not important...the arrival is.
Our Declaration of Independence states these Truths in the broadest of terms....
Ayn Rand crystallized them for me.
I was struck by this passage that could have come from her pen:
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It’s their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. Those impressive skyscrapers, so tall, so beautiful that while you raise your eyes to gaze at them you almost forget the pyramids and the divine buildings of our past.
I hope you are right, she has far too much sense and love to be a true athiest. I've always enjoyed her writing, although a novel is a little to much of her, these short pieces are right in her sweet spot.