On this day in 1943, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was published. It tells the story of an impoverished architecture school dropout, Howard Roark, and how he navigates—or fails to navigate—the New York ...

The fictional Ellsworth Toohey, left, and Howard Roark, right, in the 1949 film adaptation of The Fountainhead. On Thursday morning conservative political operative and media owner Dan Proft responded ...

Ayn Rand may have been a raging capitalist extremist, but wow, can she write. The famous figurehead of the libertarian movement and proud ethical egoist writes novels that mirror her philosophies.

If you have not read Ayn Rand’s, Fountainhead(Review) then you may want to skip this post, go buy the book, and then come back. If you have (and you know about Mark Cuban), then you may be ...

Neal Aronson admires Howard Roark more than anyone. Maybe you’ve heard of him, and maybe you haven’t, because Roark is the protagonist in Ayn Rand’s book, “The Fountainhead.” “He always stuck with his ...