Heritage Foundation fellow Andy Puzder speaks with Michael Knowles about Ayn Rand's book, "The Fountainhead." Via Prager U-- How do you stay true to yourself in a world that demands conformity? Ayn ...

If a man isn’t true to himself and, therefore, to his creations (paintings, poems, novels, architecture or music), they and he won’t endure. Director King Vidor’s anti-communist film suggests that ...

Ayn Rand may have been a raging capitalist extremist, but wow, can she write. The famous figurehead of the libertarian movement and proud ethical egoist writes novels that mirror her philosophies.

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 ...

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 ...

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 books of Ayn Rand, above in 1964, are still popular a half-century later. More than 25 million copies have been sold.LEONARD MCCOMBE / TIME LIFE PICTURES / GETTY She knew how to make an entrance.