The 20th Century is one of history’s most paradoxical: a century of astonishing scientific advance, technological innovation, and rising living standards––but also a century of world wars, murderous tyrants, and dramatic economic failures. It is also a century marked by philosophical collapse into pragmatic cynicism and crusading irrationality. In this talk, Dr. Ridpath examines, within this twentieth-century context, the significance of the work fo Ayn Rand.