Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersberg, Russia. She escaped to America in 1926 amidst the rise of Soviet Communism. She remained in the United States for the rest of her life, where she became a ...

The two first met when he was in his mid-twenties and she was in her forties, and already well-established via her 1943 novel The Fountainhead, which had been a best-seller. They were introduced ...

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 ...

How the anti-Christian philosopher prepared me to hear the gospel. Ayn Rand changed my life. When I embraced her philosophy, Objectivism, the conversion was far more dramatic than my decision, several ...

The books of Ayn Rand, above in 1964, are still popular a half-century later. More than 25 million copies have been sold.LEONARD MCCOMBE / TIME LIFE PICTURES / GETTY She knew how to make an entrance.

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 ...

So let’s talk about Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand and the meaning of life. Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman who chairs the House Budget Committee, was selected by Mitt Romney to fill out the Republican ticket ...

The United States is mired right now not only in a political crisis — but in an existential crisis. The deep divide between left and right is accompanied by incessant attacks on foundational ...

Artist statement: “American Demagogues An Unbroken Succession” consists of 20 expressive brush drawings of individuals along with a biography focused on demagoguery. One person’s demagogue is another ...

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One of the most important intellectual relationships in the life of Alan Greenspan, the prominent former central banker who died Monday, was with author Ayn Rand, whose 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged has ...