When the Dean in Ayn Rand's literary masterwork 'The Fountainhead' tries to dissuade the young student architect Howard Roark ...
Children, long ago in a land far away, I aspired to be a writer of serious fiction rather than of ephemeral newspaper columns.
The "warmth of collectivism" fails again and again. It's failing now in Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua and Venezuela. It was ...
The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.
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.
While Ayn Rand achieved fame as a novelist, ( The Fountainhead/Atlas Shrugged, among her most famous) her first public ...
Maduro is a murderous dictator who must face consequences for his brutal oppression of Venezuelans. His socialist ...
Outraged at what he deemed a literary injustice, Malcolm Cowley used his influence as a consulting editor at Viking and a well-connected critic to give Faulkner his due. In 1944-45 he published a ...
The Right had a spectacular meltdown about Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration speech rejecting “rugged individualism” in favor of ...
I was elected as a Democratic socialist and I will govern as a Democratic socialist," New York Mayor Zohran Mandani said at ...
There was a line in Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address that should have stopped New Yorkers cold. He pledged to replace what he called “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of ...