Those are the words of Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. Born in 1905, she came to the United States in 1926 and found work in Hollywood, where she pursued a career as a screenwriter.

Another graduate of Leningrad State University, Alisa Rosenbaum—better known by her nom de plume Ayn Rand—foresaw and condemned the philosophical underpinnings of Putin's war in Ukraine.

In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some ...