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Ayn Rand, popular promoter of her philosophy objectivism through her writings, depicts this interesting time period in her novel We The Living, published in 1936.

A study guide of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"

An analysis of one of the major themes of Ayn Rand's classic, "The Fountainhead"

Ayn Rand identifies the productivity of individual rational creators as the source of all human prosperity and shows why only a free-market system can enable this essential virtue to be unleashed and properly rewarded. Mr. Stolyarov explains these ideas.

An essay on The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Many (including this author) consider some of Ayn Rand's view's to be extreme and distorted. However, on the issue of faith and force, her insights are needed now more than ever.

Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand, a figure now vilified and ridiculed by the left, and religious conservatives of nearly all creeds, nonetheless had some interesting ideas here and there. One of her more notorious works was The Virtue of Selfishness.

Biography of philosopher, screenwriter, and novelist Ayn Rand, including analysis and opinions germane to Chapter One of her monograph: The Art of Fiction. Tied in are theories of Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer.

An assessment of the historical accuracy of Ayn Rand's portrayal of Soviet Russia in her novel We the Living. The paper outlines truths and fallacies from the text using reliable research sources.

The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, reflects the author's personal philosophy as well as historical events in the years preceding 1943.

The works of Ayn Rand and Ludwig van Beethoven celebrate those creators and creations which affirm the highest possibilities open to man, and provide the intellectual fuel for audiences to pursue them. Their accomplishments celebrate the creator-individual.

In Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead", Howard Roark's ultimate triumph demonstrates a rejection of the practical-moral dichotomy and the possibilities this rejection can bring the individual creator; it shows Rand's conviction that the practical and the moral are identical.

G. Stolyarov II analyzes the essential elements of Ayn Rand's masterful novelette of a future society decayed into primitivism due to the tenet of man's unquestionable servitude to his "brethren."

Ethical egoism is one of those things that can be easily sold to gullible teenagers, like how getting a tattoo or pierced tongue is somehow a rebellious thing to do. Keep them away from Ayn Rand and hopefully you'll keep them away from this dangerous pseudo-philosophy.

This article defines an ethical principle of "enlightened altruism" to counter the straw man form of suicidal altruism presented by Ayn Rand in order to bolster her poorly conceived philosophy of Objectivism.

The relationship between Peter Keating and Ellsworth Toohey is a central element of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and its theme of individualism.

Atlas Shrugged, one of Ayn Rand's more famous novels, is really a defense of capitalism as the best economic system.

This is my submission for a scholarship. I did not win any place but I did the work.

A look at the views of Friedrich Nietzsche, Harry Browne and Ayn Rand

In the opening pages of Ayn Rand's best seller, "Atlas Shrugged", we find a bunch of people standing around outside of a stopped train staring at a red light. Why the red light is on none of them know for sure, but it is a signal of danger ahead.

Its my article about the subject The virtue of selfisness in the Ayn Rand`s book of The Ethics of Emergencies.

In the late 1980s, the "mainstream" Objectivist movement featured a rising star, David Kelley, who was cruelly ostracized by Ayn Rand's "official heir," Leonard Peikoff, for thinking that different ideas and their proponents ought to be tolerated and treated civilly.

A look at the roles of women as catalysts for change in the novel "We," by Yevgeny Zamyatin, and the novella "Anthem," by Ayn Rand, and how the theme of women as catalysts can be traced back to the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.