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 ...

Mallon quotes from Ayn Rand, in a chapter he calls “Advice,” fascinate precisely because of their lack of elegance. Mallon observes that “the ugly, pile-driving clarity of Rand’s writing ...

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

He first became interested in Ayn Rand after reading her works, and has lectured about her since 1991. "I believe that it's the wisdom of the ages...the wisdom that the philosophers have been looking ...

In the 1950s, Ayn Rand read aloud drafts of what was later to become Atlas Shrugged to her “Collective,” Rand’s ironic nickname for her inner circle of young individualists, which included ...

The appeal of Ayn Rand to conservatives is both considerable and inexplicable. Modern conservatism was largely defined by Ronald Reagan's faith in the people instead of elites.

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 ...