created by the faith-based advocacy group American Values Network and provocatively titled “Ayn Rand & GOP vs. Jesus,” attempts to drive a wedge into the Republican coalition by drawing ...

Ayn Rand, whose mid-century novels "The Fountainhead ... His essay, at 7,000 words, is drawing wide discussion among supporters and opponents of Randian philosophy. The Moderate Reading of ...

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Ayn Rand is dead. It’s been 35 years since hundreds ... young conservatives determined to subvert the GOP establishment, drawing in future bigwigs such as Alan Greenspan. Her admirers were ...

In a stroke of simple genius, Ayn Rand laid the cornerstone ... Coppola and Corbet, though drawing from influences beyond Rand’s book or Vidor’s film, are in a sense rebutting them.

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 ...

Russian-born American author Ayn Rand, who is best known for her didactic novels championing capitalism and individualism, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, also wrote several philosophical ...

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 ...

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 ...