Ayn Rand for Breakfast?

Well it wasn't my idea. I turned the radio on just before 6:00 a.m. in anticipation of hearing the latest news, and instead someone named Yaron Brook is offering to explain the philosophy of Ayn Rand in four minutes. I wasn't quite up to the philosophy of Ayn Rand in four minutes before breakfast, so I twirled the dial. (It's an old radio with a dial.)

I had never heard of Yaron Brook, so I looked him up on Wikipedia. It seems that he is the current president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. So what happened to Ayn Rand's protégé, Leonard Peikoff? I don't know. I couldn't bear to wade through all the history of the relationships between Rand's followers.

Here I am in Miami, where my former friend Sergio lives. I haven't bothered to look him up since I moved here. Sergio was Peikoff's student at CCNY. Sergio became a fanatical follower of Peikoff and, presumably, Rand. A total  fanatic.

I don't believe I'll have any fanaticism before breakfast, if you don't mind.

Eugene Paul