As for Ayn Rand, she may be fun to discuss around the campfire, but her boutique philosophy isn’t likely to appeal to anyone seeking long-term solutions.

She died in 1982, but someone neglected to drive a stake through her heart. A passion for the prose and philosophy of Ayn Rand tells us a great deal about an individual, none of it good.

In the 1950s, Ayn Rand read aloud drafts of what was later to become Atlas Shrugged to her “Collective,” Rand’s ironic nickname for her inner circle of young individualists, which included ...

Two new biographies of Rand— Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns and Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Heller—try to puzzle out this question, showing how her arguments found an echo ...

The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) headquartered in Irvine, Calif., is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit. organization that works to introduce the world to Ayn Rand's novels, to support scholarship and research ...

Ayn Rand’s works, such as “Atlas Shrugged” and “Fountainhead,” are philosophical tracts disguised as novels.

Rand-which takes its name and philosophy from Ayn Rand, the late author who espoused individual virtue and accomplishment-is a subsidiary of Trout Trading Fund, the $660 million commodity pool ...