Barack Obama vs Ayn Rand: An Imaginary Debate on the True American Ideal

Chanda Chisala
14 min readDec 21, 2021

Moderator: Welcome to tonight’s historic debate entitled “the last battle for the soul of America” between two opposing thinkers, the famous novelist philosopher Ayn Rand, author of the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and Barack Obama, the first African American president, and a man who has publicly attacked Ayn Rand’s philosophy as the antithesis of his own. They…

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Chanda Chisala

Two-time Visiting Scholar to the Hoover Institute, Stanford University. Writer, originally from Zambia, Africa. Politics, psychometrics, theology, economics.