This new quarterly journal of culture and politics works from the premise that “for every human concern ... there are demonstrably objective standards by reference to which we can assess what is true ...

“The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,” Paul Ryan said in 2009. “And the fight we are in here, make no mistake ...

In what could be the greatest contribution to print libertarian movement history since, ahem, my book Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, ...

This post is about an absurd philosophy that got sold to the world of business and government, creating a world of havoc in the United States. The philosophy, called "Objectivism," came from the hack ...

In an exceptional post titled "Ayn Rand's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," Toast author Mallory Ortberg produced a mashup of the Randian philosophy of Atlas Shrugged and the wizarding world of ...

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 ...

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama stated, “Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up.” I’m not trying to ...

Though the stories are out in force now that he is the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, I could already tell that Paul Ryan was an admirer of Objectivism (though recently renounced). After all, his ...

The expression “lies, damned lies, and statistics” has long served as a pointed reminder of the risks associated with manipulating or misusing statistical information. To underscore the severity of ...

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, ...