When she was young, author Ayn Rand had a schoolgirl crush on a man who murdered, dismembered and disemboweled 12-year-old Marion Parker, before dumping her body on the street, after promising to ...

Rand and her placid, silent husband Frank O’Connor, who met the then-named Nathan Blumenthal and his future wife Barbara when they were UCLA students in California, followed the younger couple ...

And it comes from one of the most powerful champions of individual liberty. Philosopher and author Ayn Rand offered a guide for the United States to step back from its political precipice and ...

The deterioration of traditional cultural norms and the social upheaval that’s followed — from the living room to classroom the boardroom — is no surprise to Ayn Rand scholars. Among her ...

Mountainhead, if you haven't guessed, is a satire of tech billionaires. More specifically, it is a satire of their ...

Ayn Rand to Instagram poetry, the proliferation of contextless inspiration betrays a crisis in the way we read, think, and ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. If not for the open casket, Ayn Rand’s funeral might have been confused for a party. On March 8, 1982, hundreds of admirers lined up outside a funeral home ...

Another graduate of Leningrad State University, Alisa Rosenbaum—better known by her nom de plume Ayn Rand—foresaw and condemned the philosophical underpinnings of Putin's war in Ukraine.

Is liking Ayn Rand a personality defect? Before she was the godmother of American libertarianism, Rand was a writer known for insisting on the virtue and beauty of self-interest. To her admirers ...

Unlike the economists Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Friedman, Rand is best known for her novels. Her cultural significance comes not from her powers of rationality but rather her appeals ...