Recently, the U.S. Senate voted 78-15 to give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco as a drug. The...
Recently, the U.S. Senate voted 78-15 to give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco as a drug. The...
She was born on February 2, 1905, in Russia. At the age of nine, she decided she wanted to become a writer. As a teenager, she lived through
Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...
Os leitores do Atlas Shrugged de Ayn Rand , que tão notoriamente retratou o homem de negócios americano como um herói, podem muito bem estar a perguntar-se o que dizer
Uma noite após a publicação de The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand estava ao telefone, discutindo o seu desapontamento com as vendas antecipadas com....
Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged a “stunt novel.” She meant that it is a rollicking entertainment: a mystery novel with dramatic twists and
Ayn Rand. O seu nome é uma espécie de teste psicológico de tornassol; provoca inevitavelmente reacções violentas de admiração feroz ou
Era a noite de 13 de Maio de 2004, e no programa Charlie Rose Show da PBS-TV o apresentador estava a conversar com o actor Brad Pitt sobre Troy...
One of my favorite photographs of Ayn Rand dates back to 1961. In it, she is the only woman at the President's Advanced Round Table of the
Outside the concentration camps, which all collectivists felt necessary to establish in order to physically exterminate the last vestiges of
Dagny Taggart shoots guns and flies airplanes. These rational survival skills exhilarate all the heroes in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged...
I was introduced to Ayn Rand's work in 1984 by Lou Torres, who had founded Aristos, an arts journal informed by her philosophy of art, two
With only a little imagination, Atlas Shrugged may be read as a tale about ingratitude. Many passages make the point, but the most instruct
In order to answer that question, I have to share an experience. In the summer of 1991, I was on a three-week tour of Japan, and I finished
Ayn Rand said that her first novel, We the Living, was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Telling the story of...
The Letters of Ayn Rand. Edited by Michael S. Berliner, Introduction by Leonard Peikoff. New York: Dutton, 1995. 681 pp. including index.
Atlas Shrugged is more than a political thriller. It’s a love story. What is love? Is it selfish or selfless? (Featuring clips from Atlas Sh