Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Economics professor and wearer of many hats. The search for the Great American Novel should have ended in 1957 when a Russian ...

October 12 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand's classic novel Atlas Shrugged, so in the coming ... The purpose of art and philosophy is to show us truths about human nature ...

"Atlas Shrugged: Part II -- The Strike" is consistent with its predecessor as a somewhat awkward translation of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel to our current era, handled with bland telepic-style competency.

So opens Ayn Rand’s capitalist opus Atlas Shrugged which is released today as a self-financed film that will appear in limited release in theaters across the country. If you haven’t lifted a ...

The recent film adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, is exposing a whole new generation of conservatives to Rand's laissez-faire philosophy. And if they find themselves wanting ...