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.

While he remains unpersuaded by objectivism as a philosophical framework, he says that he has strongly benefited from confronting the work of Rand’s followers: “I found both conferences engaging and ...

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 ...

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.

This new quarterly journal of culture and politics works from the premise that “for every human concern ... there are demonstrably objective standards by reference to which we can assess what is true ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 25, 2011—It appears that Atlas Shrugged: Part One, released on April 15, 2011, is quickly losing the Darwinian struggle to survive at the box office. Rather ironic, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...