February 2 marks the birth of one of the most praised and vilified writers of the past century — Ayn Rand, who sold over 30 million books. This makes it an appropriate time to reconsider her ...
Source: By StefanoRR [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Royalty Free In my recent PBS NewsHour article, I discuss Ayn Rand's influence in industry and government. I wrote the article because I ...
In her 1962 essay "Have Gun, Will Nudge," Rand foresaw how government officials would seek to silence people they don't like.
A leading expert on novelist Ayn Rand’s complex philosophy of objectivism led a discussion Wednesday night that attempted to explain the author’s oft-misunderstood doctrine. Faithful proponents and ...
Dr. Yaron Brook, Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, spoke on the morality of war last night in Barnum Hall. "[President George W.] Bush has not taken the actions necessary to defeat ...
Only rarely in U.S. history do writers transform us to become a more caring or less caring nation. In the 1850s, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was a strong force in making the United States a more ...
Over at Slate, evolutionary anthropologist Eric Michael Johnson has a fascinating essay about what science has to say about Ayn Rand’s theories of human nature. After immersing himself in Rand’s work, ...
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