Like a lot of white males, I read Ayn Rand's bestselling novel "Atlas Shrugged" when I was 18. And like a lot of white males, "Atlas Shrugged" turned me into a huge jerk for a couple of months. "Atlas ...

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 ...

Atlas Shrugged may not seem at first glance like good source material for a movie. After all, Ayn Rand's 1957 opus is not only 1,100 pages long, but its story hinges on a 50-page monologue that has ...

In a frightening alternative future, someday this might actually happen: In light of America’s libertarian revival, the Ayn Rand estate has leaked the synopses of several unpublished sequels to Rand’s ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0442 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0442 Copy URL ABSTRACT: Mark David Henderson’s book, The ...

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged can teach us a lot about the vaunted American ideal of pompous, adolescent selfishness. The primary message of the book can be boiled down to the general theme that all ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 25, 2011—It appears that Atlas Shrugged: Part One, released on April 15, 2011, is quickly losing the Darwinian struggle to survive at the box office. Rather ironic, ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.19.2.0243 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jaynrandstud.19.2.0243 Copy URL See, for example, the last book by Etkind 2013 ...

"I grew up reading Ayn Rand, and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are and what my beliefs are," said Ryan in a 2005 speech before the Atlas Society, a group of Rand ...

Say that the longest philosophical speeches were removed from Atlas Shrugged. Francisco D'Anconia would muse on money in a brief, plausibly conversational way. Hank Rearden would explain himself ...