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.

Last year Ms. Smith published Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist (Cambridge University Press), one of the first sympathetic treatments of objectivism from a major university press. The ...

More than four decades after her death, the author of the popular novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead is still one of the most divisive public intellectuals. On one hand, her position of ...

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, ...

“The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,” Paul Ryan said in 2009. “And the fight we are in here, make no mistake ...

Gary Weiss, long time Wall Street reporter and author, has written a new book, due out this week from St. Martin’s Press, on the rising influence of Ayn Rand in modern politics. Titled Ayn Rand Nation ...

Romney running mate Paul Ryan’s position on controversial philosopher and author Ayn Rand has changed somewhat over the years, from when he supposedly made his interns read “Atlas Shrugged” to when ...

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 ...

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 ...