The Ayn Rand Institute is a nonprofit think tank in Irvine, California, that promotes Objectivism, a philosophical system developed by author Ayn Rand. Its stated goal is to "spearhead a cultural ...

The Orange County-based Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), founded in Los Angeles in 1985 to advance the writer’s philosophy of objectivism, recently announced that Jim Brown has taken over as the new chief ...

Teachers requested more than 400,000 copies of the novelist Ayn Rand’s books through the Ayn Rand Institute’s Books to Teachers program in the 2011-12 school year, a 30 percent increase in requests ...

July 6 (Reuters) - The institute promoting the “laissez-faire capitalism” of writer Ayn Rand, who in the novels “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” introduced her philosophy of “objectivism” to ...

What does Ayn Rand do when a global pandemic strikes? Does she use the impressive torque of her sterling bootstraps to vault over adversity? Does she seize the moment of a supine economy to make her ...

She was the high priestess of profit, preaching “rational selfishness” and “laissez-faire capitalism.” So it’s fitting, perhaps, that the Irvine nonprofit devoted to Ayn Rand’s work is defying ...

About a decade ago, while a student at Chapman University, I organized a debate on the legacy of Columbus and set out to find the craziest people on the Left and Right to argue. On the Left was the ...

The Ayn Rand Institute, an organization named for Atlas Shrugged author Ayn Rand, which promotes her "laissez-faire" capitalism philosophy, was approved for a loan as part of the Paycheck Protection ...

The Ayn Rand Institute, bastion of capitalist thinking and a champion of individual rights, is moving to Orange County as it looks for a more comfortable fit physically and philosophically. Its ...

On the afternoon of July 3, in San Diego, the annual Objectivist Conference came to order. Followers of Ayn Rand paid up to $735 for the whole shebang. No media joined them. So, when the panel on the ...