• • • "Ayn Rand: America's Comeback Philosopher" by Craig Biddle 
Craig Biddle, The Objective Standard Egoism  |Individual Rights  |Paul Ryan  |Objectivist author  | If America is to “come back” to the recognition and protection of rights, Americans must discover and embrace [...] the scaffolding that grounds the principle of rights in perceptual fact and gives rise to the principle that the only proper purpose of government is to protect rights by banning force from social relationships. The philosophy that provides this scaffolding is Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. To see why, let us look at Rand’s philosophy in contrast to the predominant philosophies of the day: religion, the basic philosophy of conservatism; and subjectivism, the basic philosophy of modern “liberalism.”   Published: 2012-10-30