I am not a particular fan of Ayn Rand’s work, though I hasten to add that I have read very little of it. I have always felt about it the way Cary Grant, in The Philadelphia Story, felt about George ...

Ayn Rand, born on this day in 1905, is one of the most American people to ever live, despite being Russian born. Rand not only wrote best-selling novels, but also developed an entire philosophical ...

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 Conspirators will present the world premiere of Ayn Rand's "It's a Wonderful Life" as Performed by the Conspirators, Under the Direction of Dianne Feinstein (RAND/FEINSTEIN) written by Sid Feldman ...

In Lexi Freiman’s “The Book of Ayn,” a canceled novelist drifts from New York parties to L.A. parties to a commune in Greece, spreading the gospel of Ayn Rand. By Alexandra Tanner Alexandra Tanner’s ...

A Russian-American writer who died 30 years ago is still selling hundreds of thousands of books a year, and this week one of her former devotees, Paul Ryan, became Mitt Romney's running mate in the US ...

Is liking Ayn Rand a personality defect? Before she was the godmother of American libertarianism, Rand was a writer known for insisting on the virtue and beauty of self-interest. To her admirers, her ...

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 ...