In 2011, the New York Times posed this question as a headline, “Can a novelist write philosophically?” drawing on the work...
We learned last week that tribe trumps truth when it comes to sexual harassment allegations against our political leaders. Partisans stick
What would you rather be remembered for: “Read my lips” or “Dodge my hands”? Breaking the tax pledge was once considered the low point...
A young woman flees a communist country, works her way to the top of her field, meets the man of her dreams, and becomes a symbol of America
The Atlas Society (TAS) announces that David Kelley, PhD, its founder and Chief Intellectual Officer, will retire at the end of 2017. Two
In a letter written on March 19, 1944, Ayn Rand remarked: “Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the s
I love civilization. It’s a hard concept to define exactly and one from which many thinkers flee.Parthenon To me it means an environment
The inclusion of Branden’s lecture and question-answer session in this collection gives him a voice in his own commemoration. Published....
I never met Ayn Rand. I never saw her in person. I never corresponded with her. Yet this woman was to exert a profound influence on my life.
Maybe it was the cover of Atlas Shrugged that caught the attention of the weight-lifting community. Artist Nick Gaetano’s iconic cover art
The Amazons, the ancients tell us, were a violent bunch. “The Scythians call (them) Oiorpata, or as it may be interpreted, men-slayers
It is rare in our contemporary postmodern culture that its representatives get a smack down. But that is what happened with the Tyler Shield
The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn
She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that
For Ayn Rand, an argument was the distinctive human banner, the banner of reason and persuasion. Where brutes force, human beings argue, a
"I will call them, from now on, losers because that's what they are -- losers. They're losers, just remember that,” said President Trump
One of the more poetic events in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is when the protagonist, Howard Roark comes to watch Dominique posing naked fo
The term “neoliberalism” is being flung around everywhere these days, usually with a haughty sense of “everyone knows what this is.” But do
In The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature, published in 1971, Ayn Rand articulated a simple framework for classifying art.
Section II features autobiographical reflections on Branden by his friends and associates Roger E. Bissell, Mimi Reisel Gladstein...
