We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment
In the fall of 1943, Warner Brothers paid Ayn Rand $50,000 for the movie rights to The Fountainhead and for Rand to write the screenplay...
Ayn Rand recognized the important role music played in Western culture: “To the Western man, music is an intensely personal experience and
Ayn Rand had no love for war. In a journal entry from 1946 she recognized that war was the purest expression of statism and the antithesis
As the midterm elections come and go, it is a good time to remember that Ayn Rand defended limited government. She had concerns about just
A Venezuelan opposition socialist affirming that our tragedy is not the result of applying a revolutionary, contemporary socialist program
Gorillas are social animals that live in groups to help them survive. Males protect females and the offspring of the group. In a group of up
PBS announced the results of The Great American Read on October 23, 2018. Out of 100 novels, fans placed Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
I have a controversial opinion. The Harvard Business Review people aren’t going to like this, but professionals on teams need to stop saying
This is how it starts. You read We the Living and get a taste for freedom. You read Anthem and develop a benevolent sense of life. You read
Academics, the media, and Democratic politicians, like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have suggested that reducing inequality should be a central objective of public policy.
It is one thing to grieve the election of a president many consider inappropriate to the office. But it is quite another to call for the
“Islamic Philosophy: The Good, the Bad, and the Dangerous” is a two-part lecture about the philosophical roots of Islamic terrorism. I gave
Early in Atlas Shrugged, Dagny and her then-lover Hank Rearden, the brilliant and hardworking founder and head of Rearden Metal, decided to
A second critical difference that sheds light on the divergent universes of Henry James and Ayn Rand is how they conceived human action.....
Ayn Rand was not the only great “mother” of the modern liberty philosophy. Isabel Patterson and Rose Wilder Lane have also been recognized
For us to make this point, we need to be very clear about what capitalism is and what it isn’t. This is especially true given the term
The Portrait of a Lady is considered the greatest novel by one of the greatest novelists in the English language....
Henry James did not consider the subject matter of his novels to be inherently the proper one for all novelists. It was the proper one for
Henry James wrote his essay “A Lecture on the Art of Fiction” in 1884 in response to novelist Walter Besant. Besant gave a lecture at the...
