There aren't many video games about political philosophy. Even fewer are about Ayn Rand and the outer limits of Objectivism. But BioShock is exactly that. Released in 2007 to huge sales and ...

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its ...

The Ayn Rand Institute is a nonprofit think tank in Irvine, California, that promotes Objectivism, a philosophical system developed by author Ayn Rand. Its stated goal is to "spearhead a cultural ...

Several Penn students, along with about 400 across the nation, tuned in Thursday night to discuss a perspective on life rare on college campuses: objectivism. “Ideas Matter: Ayn Rand’s Message to ...

Ayn Rand, born on this day in 1905, is one of the most American people to ever live, despite being Russian born. Rand not only wrote best-selling novels, but also developed an entire philosophical ...

Source: By StefanoRR [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Royalty Free In my recent PBS NewsHour article, I discuss Ayn Rand's influence in industry and government. I wrote the article because I ...

Rand's claims were indeed in agreement with early theories of cognitive development, which assumed infants were little more than sensory-motor systems, and that complex concepts were constructed from ...

She knew how to make an entrance. Her dark hair cut in a severe pageboy, Ayn Rand would sweep into a room with a long black cape, a dollar-sign pin on her lapel and an ever present cigarette in an ...

The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death. By David Marchese The trope of the embattled auteur exerting their will is too ...