Ayn Rand

Occupiers' diffuse anger isn't getting the movement where it needs to go

2011-11-19 06:30:00

The "Occupy" movement is too important to disband, though you're absolutely correct in urging them to focus their efforts on practical goals ("Time to grow up," Nov. 17). I've spent time at McKeldin Square, and I spoke briefly at the Save the Post...

Monday morning talkers: Weiner's tale unraveling further

2011-06-06 02:00:00

On�weekday mornings, I'll post the most controversial, shocking and (of course) ridiculous stories for your reading pleasure. That way, when you walk into work, you'll be the master of witty conversation. Articles� • It's looking worse and worse:...

Anna Quindlen talks with Printers Row Live

2012-05-06 08:15:00

With Mother’s Day on the horizon, it was an early gift for many of author Anna Quindlen’s fans as she communed with her Chicago peeps in these early days of a national book tour for her newly published memoir, “Lots of Candles, Plenty of...

Kinsley: Overvaluing the free market

2012-05-08 00:00:00

The people at the New York Times Magazine must think that nobody has ever read Ayn Rand, or maybe even Adam Smith. Their cover story on Sunday — misleadingly titled, "Are the Rich Worth a Damn?" — reports breathlessly that there is this fellow...

INSIGHT-When the Exxon way stops working

2012-05-08 03:27:05

By Tom Bergin London, May 8 (Reuters) - When Exxon boss Rex Tillerson walked into a meeting with the President of Ghana on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, he thought he was set to strike a deal with an important new oil producing...

US Rep. Ryan cites pope to defend budget cuts

2012-04-26 14:21:06

* Ryan says Catholic teaching guided his budget plan * Some professors criticize cuts to programs that aid poor * Ryan says private actions take precedence over state aid By David Lawder WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - Invoking Pope Benedict,...

The Siren's Call: Where's Rimbaud?

2012-04-29 00:00:00

In the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their "lost" years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he imprisoned in a cave or was he killed?), Shakespeare...

McManus: Mitt Romney stays put

2012-04-29 00:00:00

If you've been holding your breath to see whether Mitt Romney would pivot to the center now that it's a two-man race between him and President Obama, you can exhale; he won't. Romney made that clear in his victory speech after last week's primaries in...

A faith-based budget lesson for Paul Ryan

2012-05-01 00:00:00

There is something un-Christian about the Gospel According to Paul Ryan. So, at least, says Ryan's Catholic Church. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody last month, Rep. Ryan, R-Wis., the author of the House Republican...

Don Delillo's 'Cosmopolis,' via David Cronenberg [video]

2012-04-26 16:35:30

For Paul Ryan, a faith-based lesson

2012-05-01 09:01:00

WASHINGTON -- There is something un-Christian about the Gospel According to Paul Ryan. So, at least, says Ryan's Catholic Church. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody this month, Ryan, the author of the House Republican...

Catholicism and the GOP: An awkward tango

2012-05-01 00:00:00

PARIS -- A novel aspect of the Republican campaign for the party's presidential nomination has been the importance placed by some candidates, their admirers and some voters on the Catholic religion and certain claims to formal academic certification or...

's pet theory known as Objectivism, which can be described as "Us? There is no 'us'!" In Rand's worldview it's me-time, all the time.

2011-04-14 00:00:00

Frank Lloyd Wright's drawing of a proposed cottage for Ayn Rand.

2009-10-05 14:23:45

Drawings from Strange Tales No. 138, from November 1965. Ditko was a devotee of Ayn Rand.

2008-06-18 15:11:06