Do fishermen enjoy Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea? Do generals like Tolstoy’s War and Peace? I have no idea, but I’m reasonably sure no one looks to these novels for advice on how to catch fish ...

Say that the longest philosophical speeches were removed from Atlas Shrugged. Francisco D'Anconia would muse on money in a brief, plausibly conversational way. Hank Rearden would explain himself ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Ayn Rand is “one of the most important intellectual voices in our culture,” wrote Gregory Salmieri, co-editor of the Blackwell ...

"I grew up reading Ayn Rand, and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are and what my beliefs are," said Ryan in a 2005 speech before the Atlas Society, a group of Rand ...

In this inaugural edition, one reader is inspired to quit Catholicism; another yearns for a book burning and inquisition; and a third is shocked to discover that the novel was published in the late ...

When I was attending St. Augustine High School in the 1960s in Laredo a classmate made me aware of a novel by Ayn Rand — “Atlas Shrugged.” I went to the Laredo Public Library and checked out the book, ...

To find fault with the “Atlas Shrugged” franchise because of its politics is like complaining about “Birdemic” because it gets the ornithology wrong. Why dwell on the details when there are giant, ...

To many people, the name Ayn Rand is a punch line, an occasion for a little eye-rolling, a superior cackle or a dismissive tweet (crazy Russian bag lady/right-wing hypocrite/home-wrecking lunatic, etc ...

O.K., show of hands: who thinks that the current economic crisis is the result of too much government regulation of the financial markets? I’ve got just the movie for you: as Steve Zeitchik says today ...

This second installment of the planned three-part film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s signature tome is a rickety construction. Plagued with poor production values, mediocre performances, and lots of ...