Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” has polarized opinion for more than 50 years. Its fans — including, until recently, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan — applaud the book’s ...

With the publication of "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand became the most remarkable of thinkers: a moral revolutionary. For anyone interested in ideas, it's a book which deserves to be read and re-read.

They are woven into the fabric of our society. Ayn Rand is best known for her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. The ideas behind them — her philosophy — have sunk so deeply into our ...

Like a lot of white males, I read Ayn Rand's bestselling novel "Atlas Shrugged" when I was 18. And like a lot of white males, "Atlas Shrugged" turned me into a huge jerk for a couple of months.

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 ...

Nearly thirty years after her death, Ayn Rand’s novels continue to be wildly popular—"Atlas Shrugged" alone is selling more today than it did when it was first published in 1957 -- more than ...

Simply put, this is the movie Hollywood doesn’t want you to see. For those unaware of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, it is a novel that has profoundly moved millions of readers. It is one of the ...

Rumors of a screen adaptation of Ayn Rand’s blockbuster 1957 novel “Atlas Shrugged” have been tantalizing the author’s legion of followers and fans since the late 1970s. As recently as ...

The plot of Ayn Rand's controversial 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged" couldn't be more relevant to Germany as the European financial crisis unfolds - or so contends a young Munich executive ...

One guesses that Ayn Rand, author of the 1957 dystopian novel “Atlas Shrugged,” wouldn’t be surprised by our government-business partnerships and moral crusades. Sam Bankman-Fried would fit ...

April 15, 2011— -- "Atlas Shrugged," the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 classic, hits theatres today. The novel, which centers around railroad executive Dagny Taggart as she fights to ...