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 ...

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.

Today marks the birthdate of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, best known to the world as Ayn Rand. A tenacious champion of capitalism and limited government, Rand provokes strong reactions from her ...

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 ...

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 ...

Would novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand have loathed Elon Musk? According to philosopher and writer Wolfram Eilenberger, author of The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of ...

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 ...

The deterioration of traditional cultural norms and the social upheaval that’s followed — from the living room to classroom the boardroom — is no surprise to Ayn Rand scholars. Among her ...

Today marks the birthdate of one Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, best known to the world as Ayn Rand. Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905, witnessing the tremendous upheaval caused by war ...

She met and made portraits of writers like Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill and Ayn Rand. In interviews ... She selected a pencil. Then, for about 20 minutes, you held still while she drew ...

A senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute takes issue with a column by Paul Krugman that blamed her philosophy for the weak response to the pandemic. To the Editor: Re “How Many Americans Will ...