The Passion Of Ayn Rand. Equally revered by greedy bastards, Canadian prog-rock musicians, and misguided philosophy majors, Ayn Rand was a distinctly American phenomenon: an atheistic philosopher ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. If not for the open casket, Ayn Rand’s funeral might have been confused for a party. On March 8, 1982, hundreds of admirers lined up outside a funeral home ...

Those who admire Rand's prodigious fiction, if not her dubious politics of self-actualization, will be disappointed by the lack of erotic heat generated by Mirren and Stoltz.

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Arguably, no two people were closer to Ayn Rand than Barbara and Nathaniel Branden, whom Rand once named as her "intellectual heir." Indeed, when the ...

I f not for the open casket, Ayn Rand’s funeral might have been confused for a party. On March 8, 1982, hundreds of admirers lined up outside a funeral home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to ...

This news might have brought a contemptuous smile to Ayn Rand’s stony face, but for one thing: Her chief competitor was L. Ron Hubbard, who landed three titles on the public’s top 10.

The family roots of Ayn Rand’s unyielding vision. Alexandra Popoff’s biography follows the author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” from her formative years in Russia to ...

View of Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand (1905-1982) on the set of the NBC program "The Today Show," New York City, on March 23, 1961. Behind her is a quote from her 1961 book, "For the New ...

In 1986, Barbara published a second biography, The Passion of Ayn Rand, which eventually was made into an award-winning Showtime movie starring Helen Mirren.