To answer your question: Yes, Lexi Freiman’s “The Book of Ayn” is about Ayn Rand, the bug-eyed author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.” The founder of Objectivism, which extols rationalism ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When she was nine, she decided that she would become a fiction writer. However, her schooling was interrupted when the Bolshevik ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
This article explores how the seemingly irrational actions of the looters in Atlas Shrugged, like the Steel Unification Plan and the attempt to force Galt into dictatorship, are driven by what Ayn ...
The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death. By David Marchese The trope of the embattled auteur exerting their will is too ...
How much compassion is due someone who quite publicly hated the very idea of compassion? This question kept haunting me as I read Alexandra Popoff’s new biography of Alisa Rosenbaum, better known to ...
The latest story from the far-left file reminds us of "Atlas Shrugged," and Ayn Rand's description of congressional law titles. Ms. Rand didn't write much funny stuff. But when her fictional ...
Tax Day has arrived. Not coincidentally April 15 also marks the cinematic release of Atlas Shrugged—Part 1. The timing could not have been planned more appropriately, as our federal government hovered ...
Writer Ayn Rand was born in Russia on Feb. 2, 1905. She fell in love with words at an early age, and taught herself to read at the age of six, according to the Ayn Rand Lexicon, and she initially ...