Ayn Rand (1905–1982) is our former compatriot who became the greatest American writer. Author of four best-selling novels and numerous articles. The creator of a philosophical concept based on the principle of free will, the primacy of rationality and the “morality of reasonable egoism.” The third part of the novel “Atlas Shrugged” debunks the delusions of dreamy fighters for equality and brotherhood. Government officials who hypocritically encourage citizens to sacrifice themselves while restricting free enterprise are leading the country to economic collapse. The plot is intertwined with financial and political intrigue, and at the same time a hymn to a new ethics sounds: the capitalist value system is not only socially justified, but also moral. The hero of the new world, the brilliant inventor John Galt, proclaims the principle of “the morality of reasonable selfishness” in one phrase: “I will never live for another person and I will never ask another person to live for me.”