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Last year, Nick Gillespie clued us in to Forever 21's "Unstoppable Muscle Tee," which allowed purchasers to boast to the world with (a variant of) Ayn Rand's words: "The question isn't who is ...
Even if they’re destined to be used by movements with which she’d want no part, Ayn Rand isn’t going to fade away from cyberspace anytime soon. Matthew Rozsa is a Ph.D. student in history at ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ayn Rand is dead. It’s been 35 years since hundreds of mourners filed by her coffin (fittingly accompanied by a dollar-sign-shaped flower arrangement), but it has been only four months since she ...
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 ...
What does the excruciating pain of the migraine have to do with Ayn Rand’s stripe of egoism, which is to say, the elevation of self and one’s own happiness above the needs of others?
A few weeks ago, The Chronicle published a package of articles on Ayn Rand’s academic legacy. The articles set Steve Gimbel, an associate professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College ...