Whittaker Chambers’s famous takedown of the libertarian — and militant atheist — Ayn Rand turns 65 today. The National Review column, titled “Big Sister Is Watching You,” was published on this date in 1957. But, as is often the case, the issues at stake are as relevant as ever, and Chambers’s blistering critiques of Rand’s position on them speak to our current moment. These are, after all, debates that implicate enduring questions about the human condition — what Chambers’s contemporary, Russell Kirk, called “the Permanent Things.” I’d invite our readers to revisit the essay in full.