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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Celebrated Russian-born philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand possessed a deep love and appreciation for the United States and its foundational principles. Her incredible admiration of America bubbles ...

Good news, Alan Greenspan, Rand Paul and all the other Ayn Rand fans still out there: Her "lost" novel is going to be published. New American Library announced Thursday it will publish the first ...

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 ...

They can find it in the ideas of a thinker who understood the harmony between free trade and a strong national defense: Ayn Rand. “The essence of capitalism’s foreign policy,” wrote Rand in ...

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 ...