The strangest detail in Rep. Paul Ryan's biography is a 2005 speech he gave at The Atlas Society, where he extolled author and philosopher Ayn Rand, particularly her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged. What ...
Do fishermen enjoy Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea? Do generals like Tolstoy’s War and Peace? I have no idea, but I’m reasonably sure no one looks to these novels for advice on how to catch fish ...
The third installment of the trilogy based on Ayn Rand's novel will open at a politically opportune time -- just ahead of midterm elections. By Paul Bond Atlas Shrugged Still - H 2014 The third ...
Two thirds done! I will admit I flipped ahead to the next page after the end of Part II and was thrilled to discover it was finally time to introduce John Galt as a character, right there at the start ...
"The book was incredibly informative for me," says actress Samantha Mathis who plays Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged Part II, "in terms of figuring out [Dagny's] backstory and where she came from, and ...
The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. In his column last week, Brian Underwood tried to move beyond the usual ...
‘Cloud-Cuckoo-Land” is more like it. Reading David Mitchell’s 2004 multigenre novel “Cloud Atlas,” I was dazzled by the author’s mimetic skills, incorporating the genres and voices of Herman Melville, ...
(You can also read my review of the first Atlas Shrugged movie and my review of the second Atlas Shrugged movie.) Who is John Galt? Thanks to budget cuts, it’s this guy. By all rights, the third movie ...
The people behind the “Atlas Shrugged” series of films have things they want to tell you, and just to make sure that you know what they are, the movies tell you, and tell you, and then tell you again.