By the way, I recommend everyone here read Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns. It’s a serious unbiased book that was written with access to files from ARI. It should cure anyone who has become an Objectivist after reading some of her books.

Rand had an affair with a follower and then had her husband and the wife come in and commit to the affair. Her husband was submissive to her judgmental madness for literally decades. Until the day she died, she was unwilling to listen to anyone else. She never inquired as to why her sister felt more love for her home in Russia than the United States. She instead shut her sister out because of philosophical agreements.

Everyone does weird stuff in their lives, but Rand never seemed to arrive at the light of self awareness that most people do as they grow up and passionately used big words haphazardly to justify a philosophy of immaturity.