What is the main conflict in For the New Intellectual; the Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand?

Rand's politics are rooted in freedom, limited government and property rights; her novels usually include some conflict between the individual and the state, and between the individual's characteristic activity - creation and production, and the collective or state's characteristic activity - theft, parasitism, destruction. She believed that reason justified capitalism and that capitalism was the only social system compatible with man's nature.