let’s cue up the original film of buildings and hubris — King Vidor’s “The Fountainhead” (1949), based on the 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. In the film’s final shot, the architect Howard ...

Those are the words of Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. Born in 1905, she came to the United States in 1926 and found work in Hollywood, where she pursued a career as a screenwriter.

Many of the features of today's crony politics and vilification of capitalism are foretold by Ayn Rand in her 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged." This 1,168-page doorstopper of a book has inspired many ...

Another graduate of Leningrad State University, Alisa Rosenbaum—better known by her nom de plume Ayn Rand—foresaw and condemned the philosophical underpinnings of Putin's war in Ukraine.