It’s hard to say what Ayn Rand would think about our current superhero boom. On the one hand, the late author, philosopher, and progenitor of the Objectivist movement was a high-minded sort who ...

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains significant plot and denouement revelations regarding the graphic novel and movie Watchmen. The moral center of Watchmen, both the original graphic novel by Alan ...

Ayn Rand is one of those people whom you just want to go away, but won't. I say this not with hate or ignorance, but with deep familiarity. When, as a self-absorbed college freshman, I first came ...

On the afternoon of July 3, in San Diego, the annual Objectivist Conference came to order. Followers of Ayn Rand paid up to $735 for the whole shebang. No media joined them. So, when the panel on the ...

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 ...

“Debate about Rand’s quality and significance should be pursued — but not by these means,” she says. While researching the objectivist world online, Ms. Raphael began to fear that Anthem’s grants were ...

Brad Bird doesn't care about you. Unless you're preternaturally gifted – unless you're part of the 0.01 per cent of us who are truly special, whose self-made superiority is undeniable – the ...

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, ...