Passing Thoughts celebrates five years of studying Objectivism by telling us how he discovered Ayn Rand’s philosophy: In short, he was so impressed with Yaron Brook’s comments on “Talk Back Live” on CNN that he picked up a copy of Ayn Rand’s Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. That’s a great story, since people like me — who discovered Ayn Rand’s fiction in high school on the recommendation of a friend — are a dime a dozen!