View of Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand (1905-1982) on the set of the NBC program "The Today Show," New York City, on March 23, 1961. Behind her is a quote from her 1961 book, "For the New ...

To her detractors, Rand’s novels, as Lisa Duggan writes in her 2019 study “ Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed,” glamorize rapacity and violence; they grant happy endings to ...

2.14.2005 The importance of Ayn Rand [Posted 9:02 AM by Roger Kimball] I am not a particular fan of Ayn Rand’s work, though I hasten to add that I have read very little of it. I have always felt about ...

The family roots of Ayn Rand’s unyielding vision Alexandra Popoff’s biography follows the author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” from her formative years in Russia to ...