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

John Singer Sargent's Madame X was not only a bold artistic statement but a pivotal point in the invention of the modern woman.

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...

Meet Beth Harmon. She is the Mozart of chess, but can she beat her demons?

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

These gangsters give you a lesson you can't refuse.

Strong-willed industrialist meets empathetic idealist in the 1800s. Can they bridge the gap?

Despite the differences we are tending in the direction of Huxley's hedonistic dystopia.

Essays on authenticity. And vampires. And hugs. And musicians.

What contemporary songs can tell us about our epic conflict.

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.

A musical that tells the tale of that force of nature, Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues

Regarding the classic Bollywood video "Chaiyya, Chaiyya," and its erotic song and dance.