The trope of the embattled auteur exerting their will is too tempting for filmmakers to ignore. By Walker Mimms Only if billionaire tech bros stay in their lanes. By Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, ...

Ayn Rand, pictured in 1962 New York City, becomes a talisman to a disaffected present-day writer in Lexi Freiman's satirical novel "The Book of Ayn." (Associated Press) Putting Rand in the title of ...

Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House, published many greats of 20th-century letters. The biography “Nothing Random” looks at his life and the times that shaped him.

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 ...

Today marks the birthdate of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, best known to the world as Ayn Rand. A tenacious champion of capitalism and limited government, Rand provokes strong reactions from her ...

The movie “Atlas Shrugged,” adapted from Ayn Rand's 1957 novel by the same name, is a triumph of cinematic irony. A work that lectures us endlessly on the moral superiority of heroic achievement is ...

"Why does the search for heaven always lead to hell on earth?" Dr. Andrew Bernstein, a lecturer for the Ayn Rand Institute, asked a Braker Hall audience on Jan. 30. The purpose of the discussion-the ...

Of all the popular storytelling artists striving to emulate Ayn Rand, the most significant was Steve Ditko. Ditko, a comic book artist, is most famous for co-creating Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. Rand, ...

Source: By StefanoRR [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Royalty Free In my recent PBS NewsHour article, I discuss Ayn Rand's influence in industry and government. I wrote the article because I ...

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 ...