Ayn Rand Is Alive in Ankara

There is one Ayn Rand-themed establishment in Turkey. It isn't in Istanbul, the financial heart of the country, but Ankara, ...
The Conversation

Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s hero burns the world down when he doesn’t get his way. Her fans run the world – should we worry?

Our cultural touchstones series looks at books that have made an impact. Ayn Rand is “one of the most important intellectual voices in our culture,” wrote Gregory Salmieri, co-editor of the Blackwell ...
The Atlantic

The Curse of Ayn Rand’s Heir

If 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 pay their ...
Reason

Ayn Rand Denounced the FCC's 'Public Interest' Censorship More Than 60 Years Ago

After Jimmy Kimmel delivered a misinformed monologue about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr pressured broadcast channels to take the ...
Hyperallergic

Ayn Rand's Theory of Art

Did you know that Ayn Rand had a theory of art? No? Neither did I! But I discovered it recently, thanks to a tip from painter Abigail Markov. It's encapsulated in the hefty 539-page treatise What Art ...
The Atlantic

The Rand Corporation and Our Policy Makers

FOR nearly a generation the United States has labored through an age of warlike peace. Because of the possibility of thermonuclear annihilation, it is inevitable that the nation’s leading thinkers, ...