Early in Atlas Shrugged, Dagny and her then-lover Hank Rearden, the brilliant and hardworking founder and head of Rearden Metal, decided to
A second critical difference that sheds light on the divergent universes of Henry James and Ayn Rand is how they conceived human action.....
Ayn Rand was not the only great “mother” of the modern liberty philosophy. Isabel Patterson and Rose Wilder Lane have also been recognized
The Portrait of a Lady is considered the greatest novel by one of the greatest novelists in the English language....
For us to make this point, we need to be very clear about what capitalism is and what it isn’t. This is especially true given the term
Henry James did not consider the subject matter of his novels to be inherently the proper one for all novelists. It was the proper one for
Henry James wrote his essay “A Lecture on the Art of Fiction” in 1884 in response to novelist Walter Besant. Besant gave a lecture at the...
Henry James (1843-1916) is a major American author. His numerous novels and novellas include What Maisie Knew, The Turn of the Screw, The
When Steve Ditko picked up the phone over two years ago, I stammered an introduction, thanking him for the generous checks he’d written for
Ayn Rand was right of course. Rand was right about living conditions in Russia. She was right about the logical conclusions of communism....
As Dreiser depicts them, Clyde Griffiths and Roberta Alden are not lovers so much as they are victims. Biology and society conspire against
With the passage of the recent bipartisan budget agreement and its $300 billion assault on spending caps, coming on the heels of the GOP’s..
In the last decade of the 18th century Beethoven composed his 1st and 2nd piano concertos, Goya etched the series Los Caprichos, Jacques-Lou
The machine is a defining cultural element of the 20th century. The machine and mass production influences man’s view of himself, his
Dreiser’s Hortense Briggs and Rand’s Rita Eksler are both femmes fatales, but whereas Dreiser seethes with resentment that such a girl exist
If the media want to scold others for lying, perhaps they shouldn’t defend their own liars. Ever since Donald Trump’s political rise, the..
It is difficult to think of two American authors more antithetical than Ayn Rand and Theodore Dreiser. According to his 1965 biographer, W..
Conservatism may be in decline, but don’t blame it on Ayn Rand. That’s what Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne tried to do last week while
Douglas Den Uyl is vice president of educational programs for Liberty Fund. Douglas Rasmussen is a professor of philosophy at St. John’s
As far as I’m concerned, everything you need to know about capitalism vs. statism is captured in this chart comparing per-capita economic...
