Is the Objectivist concept of self-esteem partly to blame for the current wave of narcissism?

We usually know what we're going to say before we say it. It's not so obvious how that works..

Howard Roark is no statue. This is the story of his development as a human character.

I really enjoyed Greek mythology as a boy, but I was never much interested in Atlas. His brother Prometheus, who created humankind and...

The paradoxical characters of Oskar Schindler, Howard Roark and Shakespeare's Brutus

Some characters are perfectly realized without being merely allegorical.

You would expect Ayn Rand not to like the concept of "surrender," but sometimes she does.

In which the sense of life in Beethoven's Fifth is compared to that of Atlas Shrugged.

My thesis is that John Galt, hero of Ayn Rand's magnum opus Atlas Shrugged, can be regarded as an "alternative Christ." An alternative...