Writer Scott Holleran does not mince words on “Randal” Paul: “Rand Paul, like his libertarian father Ron Paul, is an anti-abortion Christian “isolationist” and Ayn Rand was an atheist in favor of a woman’s right to an abortion and separation of...
From Austin360: Opening tonight at the Long Center, “Anthem” is the first adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1938 novella of the same name. Produced by Austin Shakespeare, the premiere is piquing the interest of Rand scholars around the country — and an...
Thomas Bowden discusses the pros and cons of the tea party movement: The tea party’s aim to restore America’s founding ideals are commendable, but it still harbors the same moral impetus that’s justified bigger government since the Progressive Era....
A Statement from ARI about the Resignation of John McCaskey from Our Board of Directors by Yaron Brook. http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=26109 The money quotes: “The substantive issue that Dr. Peikoff raised—whether a person who does...
“Ayn Rand would not have sought to defend herself against a similar attack. She would have regarded such an attack as contemptible, and an answer to it on her part as a moral sanction of the attackers, implying as it does that their charges are worthy of...
Washington, D.C., June 22, 2009–The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights and the media have been reporting on the surge in sales of Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged over the last six months. Not surprisingly, sales of the Atlas Shrugged audio book are...
From the introduction: That any novel should set off such a chain reaction is unusual; that “Atlas Shrugged” has done so is astonishing. For the book, a panoramic novel about what happens when the “men of the mind” go on strike, is 1168 pages...
Washington, D.C., March 18, 2009–Earlier this year Ayn Rand’s prophetic novel Atlas Shrugged was selling at triple the rate it sold at in the beginning of 2008. Now the novel is soaring to even greater heights, and its trade paperback edition is currently in...
Yaron Brook, president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, had this to say in today’s WSJ on the relevance of the 20th century American philosopher’s teachings for the world today: Ayn Rand died more than a quarter of a century ago, yet her...
Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009–Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for the same period in 2008. This continues a strong trend after bookstore sales reached an all-time annual... 
