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
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...
Readers of Ayn Rand ’s Atlas Shrugged , which so notably portrayed the American businessman as a hero, may well be wondering what to say
One evening after the publication of The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand was on the phone, discussing her disappointment over early sales with....
Exactly forty years ago, this month, I was contemplating the tattered wreckage of my college career. And The Book was responsible.
A new collection of the former President's private letters reveals that Ronald Reagan was a fan of Ayn Rand's work. On pages 281-82 of......
“In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand described what is surely one of the most emotionally charged tennis matches ever played. But her connection
It was the evening of May 13, 2004, and on PBS-TV’s Charlie Rose Show the host was chatting with actor Brad Pitt about 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
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
When articles are written about Ayn Rand's influence, almost invariably they mention Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
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.