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In this last context, Branden specifically decried Rand's conclusion that "no woman should aspire to be [[President]] of the [[United States]]." Rand did say that, and her justification of that stance flowed directly, oddly enough, from her theory of [[sex]].
In this last context, Branden specifically decried Rand's conclusion that "no woman should aspire to be [[President]] of the [[United States]]." Rand did say that, and her justification of that stance flowed directly, oddly enough, from her theory of [[sex]].
Rand's surviving friends tend to dismiss Branden's criticism as [[Logical fallacy#Argumentum ad hominem|argumentum ad hominem]] (or perhaps more accurately, ''argumentum ad feminam'') arising out of the rather brutal break-up of Rand and Branden's eighteen-year association. But those arguments tend to commit the same logical fallacy whereof they accuse Branden. Branden's wife [[Barbara Branden|Barbara]] presents perhaps the most balanced treatment of the Rand-Branden Affair and the ensuing controversy.
Rand has not excited much enduring controversy, mainly because those who do not hold to her philosophy, or to the political theory that flows from it, have generally preferred to ignore her. One important exception was the famous (some say infamous) review of Rand's ''magnum opus'', ''Atlas Shrugged'', by [[Whittaker Chambers]].
== Can Objectivism develop further? ==
== Can Objectivism develop further? ==