Another graduate of Leningrad State University, Alisa Rosenbaum—better known by her nom de plume Ayn Rand—foresaw and condemned the philosophical underpinnings of Putin's war in Ukraine.

Echoing this insight was Rose Wilder Lane, who engaged with both Rand and particularly Paterson. Lane was born in the Dakota Territory in 1886 to Almanzo Wilder and author Laura Ingalls Wilder, who is ...