Another graduate of Leningrad State University, Alisa Rosenbaum—better known by her nom de plume Ayn Rand ... Russia." Rand's 1964 essay collection The Virtue of Selfishness, composed ...

Yet the belief system constructed by Ayn Rand, who died 30 years ago today ... and her nonfiction (such as The Virtue of Selfishness) she explained a philosophy she called Objectivism.

HBO's John Oliver show joked, "Ayn Rand became famous for her philosophy of objectivism, which is a nice way of saying, being a selfish a—hole." "Being selfish is not the same as being an a ...