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." ...

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.

Today marks the birthdate of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, best known to the world as Ayn Rand. A tenacious champion of capitalism and limited government, Rand provokes strong reactions from her ...

Are most modern problems caused by selfishness or a lack of it? Ayn Rand, a Russian American philosopher and writer, would say it's the latter — that selfishness is not a vice but a virtue ...

Mallon quotes from Ayn Rand, in a chapter he calls “Advice,” fascinate precisely because of their lack of elegance. Mallon observes that “the ugly, pile-driving clarity of Rand’s writing ...

Students in my classes who are enamored of Rand usually say the same thing when asked what it is about Rand's objectivism that so strongly appeals to them: "She teaches us that we can rely on no ...