Rand, Paterson, and Lane

"This Women's History Month, on the sixty-third anniversary of their monumental triple achievement, the Cato Institute pays homage to three women without whom it would not exist."  In an artilcle entitled Three Women Who Launched a Movement, CATO discusses Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine, Rose Lane's The Discovery of Freedom, and Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and (later) Atlas Shrugged, all published in 1943.

In a time of great political and economic turmoil, when most people assumed that socialism was the wave of the future, and almost unavoidable, these three women presented the ideas of individualism, capitalism, and the virtue of free markets is such an understandable and persuasive way, that they effected a great intellectual change in American society.  This article got me thinking, we could sure use another Ayn Rand right about now.