Rand had very non-traditional views of marriage and the family. In that sense, she is not someone who conservatives would hold up as a model. In fact, she encourages right down immoral personal relationships and practiced them as well. She’s definitely libertarian and I am not. But her stance on personal relationships is not the reason why I read her.
Precisely. Her personal life was tumultuous and sometimes tawdry, but its her ideas that should matter to us. I think she was brilliant.