Why Did Ayn Rand Choose America? | Check Your Premises Ep.6

For 250 years, America has stood as a beacon of freedom, opportunity, and individual rights. But what made the United States different from every nation that came before it? In this episode of Check Your Premises, Maggie Anders explores America's founding principles through the remarkable story of Ayn Rand, an immigrant who escaped Soviet collectivism and found in America a nation unlike any other. Why did millions of people risk everything to come here? What made the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness so revolutionary? And what happens when a society begins to forget the ideas that made its prosperity possible? From the Declaration of Independence to the rise of American innovation, entrepreneurship, and abundance, individual rights—not collectivism—became the foundation of the most prosperous nation in history.