View of Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand (1905-1982) on the set of the NBC program "The Today Show," New York City, on March 23, 1961. Behind her is a quote from her 1961 book, "For the New ...

View of Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand (1905-1982) on the set of "The Today Show" in New York City, March 23, 1961. Behind her is a quote from her 1961 book, "For the New Intellectual." ...

To her detractors, Rand’s novels, as Lisa Duggan writes in her 2019 study “ Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed,” glamorize rapacity and violence; they grant happy endings to ...

But to say that one is wary of statism or that one is a champion of capitalism and limited government is not to say that one is a follower of Ayn Rand. This is a something that some of Rand’s ...

The family roots of Ayn Rand’s unyielding vision Alexandra Popoff’s biography follows the author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” from her formative years in Russia to ...

2.14.2005 The importance of Ayn Rand [Posted 9:02 AM by Roger Kimball] I am not a particular fan of Ayn Rand’s work, though I hasten to add that I have read very little of it. I have always felt about ...

Lexi Freiman has the qualities of a great comic writer: She’s deeply skeptical, sparing no one, including herself; she doesn’t ruminate at the expense of good timing; and most of all, she ...

The most direct challenge to Rand and Roark is in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, in a vast array of quarter zips, is, like Rand, a Jewish immigrant.