I am writing a book on ideology in modern politics and I want to include examples of ideologies that derives their values from an "is". Marxism has its historical materialism, classic conservatism ...

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 ...

It’s hard to say what Ayn Rand would think about our current superhero boom. On the one hand, the late author, philosopher, and progenitor of the Objectivist movement was a high-minded sort who ...

“The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,” Paul Ryan said in 2009. “And the fight we are in here, make no mistake ...

Thirty years post mortem Ayn Rand is still worshiped by the political Right, from libertarians to lululemon. Despite the superficial appeal of rational self interest it’s built on shallow foundations.

Writing in the pages of William F. Buckley’s National Review, Whittaker Chambers, a former communist turned vigorous anti-communist, offered what would become the most famous criticism of novelist Ayn ...