The invitation came from the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship, a California-based organization that promotes the ideas of the late Ayn Rand, whose much-loved and much-loathed novel Atlas ...

Ayn Rand was a kind of running joke when I was a kid in the 1950s. I knew about her thanks to the 1957 publication of Atlas Shrugged and its instant rise on the best-seller list. That in turn drew ...

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, ...

US president Donald Trump loves Ayn Rand; her 1943 novel The Fountainhead is one of only three novels he’s ever mentioned liking. Rand is also credited for inspiring many other Republicans’ political ...

A few weeks ago, The Chronicle published a package of articles on Ayn Rand’s academic legacy. The articles set Steve Gimbel, an associate professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College, thinking. “You ...

My parents split up when I was 4. My father, a lawyer, wrote the divorce papers himself and included one specific rule: My mother was forbidden to raise my brother and me religiously. She agreed, ...

“The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,” Paul Ryan said in 2009. “And the fight we are in here, make no mistake ...

The Orange County-based Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), founded in Los Angeles in 1985 to advance the writer’s philosophy of objectivism, recently announced that Jim Brown has taken over as the new chief ...

I am struggling here...<BR><BR>I am writing a book on ideology in modern politics and I want to include examples of ideologies that derives their values from an "is". Marxism has its historical ...