OVERVIEW After captivating an audience at Yale University, the late novelist, Ayn Rand, was asked by a reporter, “What’s wrong with the modern world?” Without a moment’s hesitation, she replied,“Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible. To paraphrase the Bible,” said this agnostic, “The modern attitude is ‘Father forgive us for we know not what we are