The invitation came from the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship, a California-based organization that promotes the ideas of the late Ayn Rand, whose much-loved and much-loathed novel Atlas ...

Life Changing Lessons by Ayn Rand (philosophy of Ayn Rand) "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu ...

Ayn Rand was a kind of running joke when I was a kid in the 1950s. I knew about her thanks to the 1957 publication of Atlas Shrugged and its instant rise on the best-seller list. That in turn drew ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 25, 2011—It appears that Atlas Shrugged: Part One, released on April 15, 2011, is quickly losing the Darwinian struggle to survive at the box office. Rather ironic, ...

Writing in the pages of William F. Buckley’s National Review, Whittaker Chambers, a former communist turned vigorous anti-communist, offered what would become the most famous criticism of novelist Ayn ...

Thirty years post mortem Ayn Rand is still worshiped by the political Right, from libertarians to lululemon. Despite the superficial appeal of rational self interest it’s built on shallow foundations.

My parents split up when I was 4. My father, a lawyer, wrote the divorce papers himself and included one specific rule: My mother was forbidden to raise my brother and me religiously. She agreed, ...

The Orange County-based Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), founded in Los Angeles in 1985 to advance the writer’s philosophy of objectivism, recently announced that Jim Brown has taken over as the new chief ...

I am struggling here...<BR><BR>I am writing a book on ideology in modern politics and I want to include examples of ideologies that derives their values from an "is". Marxism has its historical ...