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Today marks the birthdate of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, best known to the world as Ayn Rand.

In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some ...

Are those accurate criticisms? Ayn Rand replied, “Yes.” She explained, “I don’t believe in God. I don’t approve of religion, it is a sign of a psychological weakness and I regard it as ...

The reason this is becoming increasingly popular has a lot to do with Ayn Rand, one of Silicon Valley's favorite authors, and the “myth of the founder" her writings have helped inspire.

She didn’t accept that there is any necessary conflict between reason and emotion.

I was always curious about Rand, both as a novelist of ideas and one of the few women intellectuals who most people know. When I was a graduate student in U.S. history, I decided to learn more ...