How do you create for yourself a life of meaning and purpose and value? How can we build a better society, one that supports human flourishing and happiness? For millennia, people have sought answers in faith and sacrifice. But have these delivered a better life and a better society? In Ayn Rand’s view, what’s needed is an alternative moral ideal—a new vision of what makes human life and happiness possible. In Rand’s philosophy, the keys to a better life are not faith, hope and charity but reason, purpose and self-esteem.