In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes ... The basic axioms of "objectivism" as Miss Rand aptly calls her new philosophy, are sufficiently tame; it is only when she builds ...

Tara Smith examines what each of these virtues consists in, why it is a virtue, and what it demands of a person in practice. "...a strongly written addition to the scholarly literature on Ayn Rand's ...

Rand’s is the philosophy of the psychopath, a misanthropic fantasy of cruelty, revenge and greed. Yet, as Gary Weiss shows in his new book, Ayn Rand Nation, she has become to the new right what ...

Ayn Rand was all about objectivism, the philosophical system for the selfish, but she was, apparently, also all about cats. She loved cats so much that she subscribed to "Cat Fancy" magazine and ...

The second is that Rand’s philosophy is incompatible with totalitarianism ... what troubles me about this gas chamber, and about Ayn Rand. And to explain that, I must say something about ...

Forbes contributor Harry Binswanger, who is a disciple of the writer Ayn Rand, argued this week that ... Yahoo's Daily Ticker today to talk about his philosophy (video here).

The core of Ayn Rand's philosophy is that unfettered self-interest is good and altruism is destructive. So what if we indeed allowed ourselves to be blinded to all but our own self-interest?… ...

This is the most obvious with Rand, who lived her individualist philosophy by bucking countless gender and social conventions of her time. This independence, which we might admire, came with a ...

Rand’s philosophy was updated and formalized in 1974 ... making and enforcing laws for their own benefit. The followers of ...