Shashwat Mishra introduces Ayn Rand’s massive novel promoting self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism. Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957, is a novel by Russian-American philosopher Ayn Rand. It’s ...

In For the New Intellectual (1961), Ayn Rand wrote, “The name I have chosen for my philosophy is Objectivism.” Ayn Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg in 1905. Her father was ...

In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Ayn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that egoism s ...

I was always curious about Rand, both as a novelist of ideas and one of the few women intellectuals who most people know. When I was a graduate student in U.S. history, I decided to learn more ...