Leonard Peikoff dedicated his life to promoting the author’s vision of freedom and self-determination. But at what cost?

A young woman once insisted that ... Jonathan Chait insists that conservatives are intellectual hostages to Ayn Rand because he doesn’t know better; he’s just intellectually dishonest.

Yet the belief system constructed by Ayn Rand, who died 30 years ago today, has never been more popular or influential. Rand was a Russian from a prosperous family who emigrated to the United States.

Once upon a time, says Ayn Rand, the world was ruled by a combination of faith and force—by a conspiracy of priests and tyrants. The priests kept men under control by persuading them that the ...

When Peikoff was young, in a bizarre incident that made the ... She had a connection to Ayn Rand through her boyfriend, Nathan Blumenthal—another child of Russian Jewish immigrants, who would ...

No, I don’t want to be “ruled” by Objectivists (I’m not even sure how an Objectivist could rule), but as Rand’s eternal nemesis William F. Buckley might say sola dosis facit venenum (the ...