For fans of Atlas Shrugged, January 22 marks the anniversary of the destruction of Rearden Steel.
A few years ago I read the book What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (Open Court, 2000) by Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi..
In The Writers Series this month we feature another contemporary novel informed by the ideas and the romantic realism of Ayn Rand...
A soul-searching article by exasperated art critic Jerry Saltz. How does the art world live with itself? Great question, and Saltz’s piece is well worth reading.
W. S. Gifford, the president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, called London on January 7, 1927 to speak with Sir Evelyn...
In “Benevolence versus Altruism” (The Objectivist Newsletter, July 1962), Nathaniel Branden decried the “package deal” that links altruism
According to Rand, ethics is based on the requirements of life. That which makes life possible sets the standard of good; that which
On January 1, 1945, Ayn Rand opened her journal and began writing notes for her fourth novel.
In all most traditional ethical theories, self interest is the target of morality, but it is the self interest of the better off, stronger
Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that
In the foreword to The Moral Basis of Individualism—a book that Ayn Rand began writing for Bobbs-Merrill in 1943 but never finished—we find
In the context of the history of ethics, this is not surprising. Business ethics is an applied discipline, and one would expect it to apply
I, Charles from the Camps: A Novel is a 2018 dystopian novel by Joel D.
On December 15, 1791, the United States Congress ratified the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing indi
This four-part series by The Atlas Society Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks, Ph.D is a justification of capitalism and of Ayn Rand’s ethics of..
In my last essay, I summarized some leading ideas of Auguste Comte, who coined the word “altruism” and defended the subordination of
This four-part series by The Atlas Society Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks, Ph.D is a justification of capitalism and of Ayn Rand’s ethics of egoism in business.
A great many Republicans would be scared to death to recognize that altruism is the curse of the world and that as long as we go on
On December 5, 1933, Congress ratified the 21st Amendment and repealed Prohibition. While Ayn Rand personally rarely drank alcohol, she
We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment
