Neil Peart, Champion of Individualism
The late drummer left behind a legacy of unparalleled musicianship and freedom-celebrating lyrics.
Ayn Rand
The Possibly Pending Death of a Legendary Radio Station
Friday A/V Club: When Timothy Leary, Ayn Rand, and Big Mama Thornton shared a microphone
Stossel: In Defense of Capitalism
People acting in their own self-interest created modern prosperity, says Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook.
'America Really Was the First Country Founded on Individualism': Podcast
Jonathan Hoenig, a devotee of Ayn Rand, founder of Capitalist Pig investments, and editor of The New Textbook of Americanism, isn't pulling any punches.
That Time Ayn Rand Threatened Reason with Legal Action: Podcast
One of Reason's founding editors, attorney Manny Klausner, tells tales from the early days of the magazine of "Free Minds and Free Markets."
House Committee on Un-American Activities
The Life and Death of a Hollywood Blacklist
Sometimes censorship is a public-private partnership.
Steve Ditko, RIP
The Objectivist comic book artist, co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, left an indelibly brilliant mark on popular culture.
Zack Snyder Hopes to Film Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead
The things that made DC Comics fans hate Snyder's vision of heroism might make him just right for Rand's Roark.
Is Selfishness a Virtue? A Debate With Yaron Brook and Gene Epstein.
"The Christian morality of sacrifice and altruism is wrong," says Brook, executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute.
Is Selfishness a Virtue? Watch the Live Debate.
The Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook vs. economist Gene Epstein.
Is Selfishness a Virtue?: Watch Live Debate Tuesday at 6:45 P.M.
Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute and Gene Epstein of The Soho Forum debate and Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News moderates!
Attn, NY Reasonoids: "Is Selfishness a Virtue?" Reason Debate, Jan. 16
Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook and Soho Forum's Gene Epstein will slug it out in livestreamed Oxford-style debate.
"Is Selfishness a Virtue?": A Reason/Soho Forum Debate, January 16
Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute takes on Gene Epstein of the Soho Forum, with Judge Andrew Napolitano as guest moderator!
Stossel: Ayn Rand–The Author People Love to Hate
Young people get passionate about the ideas of Ayn Rand
The Giving Tree: Bad Book or Worst Book?
Vandals in California are chopping up trees in imitation of the most-blatantly misogynistic book in all kids' lit in imitation of Shel Silverstein's classic.
How Ayn Rand-like is the Trump Administration Shaping Up to Be?
A scattered handful of fans of a novelist does not turn Trump Tower into Galt's Gulch.
Eminent Domain Critic, Ayn Rand Superfan, Former Cato CEO John Allison Could Run Trump's Treasury
Allison wants to repeal all Dodd-Frank regulations, which didn't fix the problem of banks being "too big to fail."
Donald Trump vs. Howard Roark: Who Could Build a Classier Building?
Dyspeptic presidential candidate reveals love for Ayn Rand novel The Fountainhead, but no understanding of its political implications.
Bob Poole Remembers Tibor Machan, A Fellow Founding Co-Editor of Reason Magazine
Machan was one of the libertarian community's most prolific writers and thinkers.
Tibor Machan, a Founding Editor of Reason, RIP
Refugee from communism, academic philosopher, Objectivist, popular columnist brought precision and clarity to Reason's early years.
Ayn Rand Warned Us About the Dangers of a President Like Trump
When we are all lawbreakers, vindictive asses in the executive power seat are all the more dangerous.
Long, Long Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, a Star Wars Actor Wore an Atlas Shrugged T-Shirt
And people have opinions about that.
Bowe Bergdahl, Ayn Rand Fan?
Deserter is reportedly "a truthful but delusional soldier, who identified with John Galt." He faces life in prison.
Paul Ryan Is the New Speaker of the House. So Just How Much Does He Love Ayn Rand?
Celebrate the libertarian-leaning congressman's new gig with this amazing painting of Ryan with Rand and pancakes.
4 Prominent Ayn Rand Recanters
Sometimes famous people admit they admire Ayn Rand. And then sometimes they recant. Why?
Why Is the Authors Guild Supporting Publishers Against Amazon—And More Than It Supports Authors?
Because guilds don't like competition.
The Politics of Tomorrowland
The Fountainhead? More like The Open Conspiracy crossed with "The Gernsback Continuum."
Tomorrowland: 'Atlas Shrugged reimagined by Mickey Mouse'
Is director Brad Bird's film an "insidiously political" argument for the value of individual achievement?
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Nathaniel Branden, RIP, and The Pursuit of Happiness
Pursuit of happiness intersects with political freedom
And Hilarity Ensued: Ayn Rand's Objectivism, Meet Harry Potter
"Malfoy bought the whole team brand-new Nimbus Cleansweeps!" Ron said, like a poor person. "That's not fair!"
'You Can't Have Freedom for Free': On Rush, Ayn Rand, and Not Compromising
"I don't want to 'grow up,' if growing up means abandoning the principle that individuals matter," writes Matt Kibbe in Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto.
Boy, I Wonder How the Folks at Salon Feel About Ayn Rand
The troll-the-libertarians business model.
The Lost Sisterhood and the Case for Libertarian Novels
A best-selling writer explains the power of historical fiction.
Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt?
The novel that praises the sanctity of money becomes a movie that's a labor of love over budgets.