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 ...

It is not every day that a foundation offers to pour tens of thousands of dollars into a humanities department at a small regional institution. But this past spring, the philosophy department at the ...

Brit Hume, FOX News: What is your view of Ayn Rand? Are you an Ayn Rand disciple? Rep. Paul Ryan: No. I really enjoyed her novels, Atlas Shrugged in particular. It triggered my interest in economics.

Objectivism. A philosophy for living? Why Ayn Rand advocated the virtue of selfishness and what she meant By Onkar Ghate Formally, Ayn Rand called her philosophy Objectivism but informally she called ...

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.

“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 ...

Gautam Naik is an IIT Kharagpur graduate and has more than twenty-five years of Entrepreneurship experience in Global Software Services. In a humorous story, Great Marathi Author P L Deshpande’ s ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.35.2.0165 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jspecphil.35.2.0165 Copy URL Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral ...

On the UA campus there are dozens of clubs to join for a multitude of reasons, whether it is to learn new things, make new friends or kill time. One of those clubs is STRIVE, Students for Reason, ...

It’s hard to say what Ayn Rand would think about our current superhero boom. On the one hand, the late author, philosopher, and progenitor of the Objectivist movement was a high-minded sort who ...