Still being a listener of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, I again take issue with their current stance on politics.

In all likelihood, I have been inundated with messages about the good versus evil since I was born—from my Protestant upbringing to Disney movies with heroes and villains to schoolbooks with simple stories about such dichotomies. My love for literature began to take hold when our middle school classes began to focus more on understanding what a text was trying to say, uncovering the themes and meaning behind chosen words, thoughts, and ideas.

The Ayn Rand Institute was my Charlie Kirk. They were a bastion of fresh air in my suffocating college experience. I have said this multiple times, but here I am saying it again: The Marxist rhetoric emanating from American University was palpable. American University, ironically, was the most anti-American place I had ever been. I was taught that everything I knew was wrong and that the world was upside down. I went from A is A to A is B there.

In The Montessori Child, I wanted to share how Simone Davies slid in more and more propaganda over the course of her works. She began with The Montessori Toddler, which did not stray too far left field, but by her latest book, the only thing a parent could take away from it was that your child must become a solider for justice, a woke warrior, a “peaceful protestor,” and an activist for the Marxist cause.

It’s been about nine months now since I had my first baby. As many new parents before me have said, “Going from no child to one is life-changing.” And, indeed, it is.

To live “healthy, wealthy, and wise,” as John Clarke and more famously Benjamin Franklin said, is to live happily on this earth.

A friend brought this interview between Tucker Carlson and Bryan Johnson to my attention, and once the two gentlemen started delving into the “ethics of living forever,” I found myself shouting at the screen, “Objectivism!” I could not help myself, and I needed an outlet to vent.

I recently took Bradley Method childbirth classes to prepare for labor and part of the assigned reading was a bunch of podcasts and articles from Evidence Based Birth. This title is ironic, as several one-star reviewers pointed out, because the podcast cannot even admit what a woman is. Well, let me tell you that we are women.

Objectivism gave me the oxygen I needed amidst the barrage of confusion, trolley problems, anti-reality, magical, supernatural, illogical thinking washing over me from all sides of my higher education.

I felt compelled today to read this entire lecture given by Leonard Peikoff in 1986 because the message is still just as relevant, if not more so, today than back then.