View of Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand (1905-1982) on the set of "The Today Show" in New York City, March 23, 1961. Behind her is a quote from her 1961 book, "For the New Intellectual." ...

Rand and her placid, silent husband Frank O’Connor, who met the then-named Nathan Blumenthal and his future wife Barbara when they were UCLA students in California, followed the younger couple ...

Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand (1905-1982) on the set of the NBC television program "The Today Show," New York, New York, March 23, 1961. Behind her is a quote from her 1961 book, "For the ...

When she was young, author Ayn Rand had a schoolgirl crush on a man who murdered, dismembered and disemboweled 12-year-old Marion Parker, before dumping her body on the street, after promising to ...

Ayn Rand speaking about racism, slavery, and Native Americans, at West Point in 1974 (TRANSCRIPT) To begin with, there is much more to America than the issue of racism.

Good news, Alan Greenspan, Rand Paul and all the other Ayn Rand fans still out there: Her "lost" novel is going to be published. New American Library announced Thursday it will publish the first ...

Ayn Rand Institute Chief Content Officer Onkar Ghate addressed the apparent paradox of Rand's position in a 2014 article, "The Myth About Ayn Rand and Social Security": ...

Ayn Rand’s philosophy, then, is a mix — good and bad. But the bad is really bad, so that whatever good there is would have to be carefully extracted.

Ayn Rand is often caricatured as a defender of the wealthy. But in reality, there are more rich villains in her books than heroes. As Steve Horwitz demonstrates, she exalted producers, not wealthy ...

Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” has polarized opinion for more than 50 years. Its fans — including, until recently, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan — applaud the book’s ...

Rand's first biographer (and for many years a close friend and associate of hers) Barbara Branden (see her excellent The Passion of Ayn Rand [1986]) told me something interesting about those who ...