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 ...

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What he did not write is that Ayn Rand throws in a gas chamber. It’s about two-thirds through, in a chapter called “The Moratorium on Brains,” than which I reread no farther. (Our president ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...