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 materialism, classic conservatism ...

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 novel follows Anna to Los Angeles, where she lives among Gen Z TikTok stars while struggling with her TV treatment (which, inexplicably, becomes an animated series starring a cartoon sheep called ...

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 ...

The battle over the future of the writer and founder of Objectivism, Ayn Rand, is now playing out in a San Diego courtroom. Kira Peikoff Beilis, daughter of prominent Objectivist philosopher Leonard ...

There is one Ayn Rand-themed establishment in Turkey. It isn't in Istanbul, the financial heart of the country, but Ankara, its political capital, home to Turkish bureaucrats and defense companies.

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Ayn Rand’s midcentury novels continue to strike a chord because they read as though culled from today’s headlines. Here, Rand’s “looters” raid government coffers to bail out their poorly performing ...

Objectivist art critic Luc Travers doesn't need context to appreciate Norman Rockwell. Luc Travers is an Objectivist art critic—an Objectivist art critic who leads $30 art-appreciation tours for other ...

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 ...