The central themes of Rand’s philosophy were reason, individualism and laissez-faire capitalism, says Ben Bayer, a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. This worldview extended beyond politics and ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Though the stories are out in force now that he is the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, I could already tell that Paul Ryan was an admirer of Objectivism (though recently renounced). After all, his ...

In his final blog, Onkar Ghate asks where do the attractions of Objectivism lie, and what does it re By Onkar Ghate I first picked up Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged in high school and was, like many ...

If you were honest in your polemics, and with yourselves, you would acknowledge that your attack on our alleged abandonment of dialectics and the fight against pragmatism is a subterfuge. The real ...

The expression “lies, damned lies, and statistics” has long served as a pointed reminder of the risks associated with manipulating or misusing statistical information. To underscore the severity of ...

My parents split up when I was 4. My father, a lawyer, wrote the divorce papers himself and included one specific rule: My mother was forbidden to raise my brother and me religiously. She agreed, ...