Ayn Rand on Watergate

Fifty years ago this summer, Americans were riveted to their televisions by Congressional hearings on the Watergate scandal. Ayn Rand was among them. In a series of five articles in The Ayn Rand Letter (not re-published in any of her anthologies) she recounted her unique observations about the hearings, analyzed the issues at stake, and drew attention to the wider context of America's political culture. How did Rand's comments on the hearings differ from more conventional commentary of the day? What can they teach us about today's political environment and about the state of the culture? Join Ben Bayer and Harry Binswanger to review Rand's distinctively philosophical perspective on this important chapter in American history.