Ayn Rand’s Last Public Lecture: The Sanction of the Victims

Ayn Rand defected from the . and came to the the U.S., where her anti-collectivist writings formed the intellectual basis for the philosophy she called Objectivism. She is the celebrated author of many books and essays including We the Living (1936), The Fountainhead (1943), Atlas Shrugged (1957), and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966). This video is of Rand’s last public lecture at a 1981 National Committee for Monetary Reform conference in New Orleans. The text of this lecture, which is ti