Ayn Rand said America can be saved by faith in the individual. The United States is mired in a political divide so deep it poses an existential threat to the nation, many believe.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born novelist whose work celebrated selfishness, says Gary Weiss. In April, Paul Ryan called reports of his adherence to Rand's views an "urban legend" ...

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 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.

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": ...

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’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.

I f not for the open casket, Ayn Rand’s funeral might have been confused for a party. On March 8, 1982, hundreds of admirers lined up outside a funeral home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to ...