More than four decades after her death, the author of the popular novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead is still one of the most divisive public intellectuals. On one hand, her position of ...

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born writer who immigrated to the United States in 1926, worked as a screenwriter and playwright and ...

Jeffrey Scott Quinto, a longtime grain trader at the Kansas City Board of Trade, was talking about his new job as president of the recently renamed Rand Financial Services Inc. and the direction he ...

Mitt Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, made news by declaring himself to be an unabashed admirer of quasi-philosopher Ayn Rand. Reportedly, Rand’s books are required reading for Ryan’s staff. I think ...

Another part of Christopher Beam's piece on libertarianism that caught my interest was this bit about Paul Ryan and his deep affinity for Ayn Rand: Representative Paul Ryan, also of Wisconsin, ...

Ayn Rand, in the years of her prime, told Playboy her overarching philosophy was that “man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not ...

As the race for the White House turns to the vice presidential debate, I’ve pondered the role of Ayn Rand in modern day American politics. Representative Paul Ryan famously stated that “… the reason I ...

I spent the last week in Hong Kong at the Mont Pelerin Society meetings. While there, I visited the Bruce Lee exhibit that was held at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. I took the metro, which is clean ...

Get a load of this lede, written by Lynn Parramore for Alternet and Salon: Once upon a time, hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert was living a Wall Street fairy tale. His fairy godmother was Ayn Rand, the ...