Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 Ayn Rand (; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; January 20 (February 2) 1905...

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 Philosopher Michael Huemer has argued that very few people find Rand's ideas convincing, especially...

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 The late-2000s financial crisis spurred renewed interest in her works, especially Atlas Shrugged, which...

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 On the 100th anniversary of Rand's birth in 2005, Edward Rothstein, writing for The...

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 Reception and legacy Reviews During Rand's lifetime, her work evoked both extreme praise and...

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 In ethics, Rand argued for rational egoism (rational self-interest), as the guiding moral principle....

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 Later years Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Rand developed and promoted her Objectivist philosophy...

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 After several delays, the film version of The Fountainhead was released in 1949. Although...

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 The Fountainhead and political activism During the 1940s, Rand became politically active. Both she...

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand : biography February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982 By this time she had decided her professional surname for writing would be Rand,...