"Volition" in art. With her selectivity principle well in hand, Rand proceeds to make yet another invidious distinction: An arti...

Given discussion of Atlas Shrugged's actual sales in comments, and the fact that the usual fake talking points about the so-called Libra...

The most - in fact, the only - open-minded Randian academic periodical now has its archives fully accessible. As a sample, Eric Mack runs ...

While on Friday the Atlas Shrugged movie expanded from 299 to 425 theatres, helping to boost its overall gross a little, its crucial per-cin...

Selectivity in art. In Rand's aesthetics, there is a strong tendency to over-interpret artistic works, reading into them all kinds of i...

Regular ARCHNblog commenter Laj Ogunshola delivers his verdict on the new Atlas Shrugged movie. Atlas Shrugged Pt. 1 is, first and foremost...

Box Office Mojo tells it like it is.

He must get really, really tired of that one.

The Tragic Vision (or sense) of Life. By declaring that people tend either toward a benevolent or malevolent sense of life, Rand implied th...

P. J. O'Rourke pans the new Atlas Shrugged movie in the WSJ . And he's sympathetic to Rand. The Hollywood Reporter calls it "fl...

The daughter - poignantly named Alyssa - of an Ayn Rand devotee tells her story of her father's real life application of Rand's ethi...

Malevolent sense of life. For Objectivists, a malevolent sense of life stems from an acceptance of the malevolent universe premise (MUP), w...

Rand's "Sense of Life" as an argument ad hominem . All ethical arguments, according to the philosopher George Santayana, ulti...

Sense of Life 1. This is in many ways the most troublesome of Rand's aesthetic conceptions, precisely because it is the least implausib...

Intro. Aesthetics, if it aspires to be in the least rational, sane, and just, must seek to explain, rather than judge, personal responses t...

Here's The Daily Caller's John Aglialoro interview in full, including the bizarroworld possibility of a musical adaption of the thi...

“Man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t.” I will assume that Rand doesn't mean thi...

According George Will , anyway, who writes: ...the real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ ...

Watch Another So-Bad-It’s-Fun Clip From Atlas Shrugged: The Movie This also in from New York Magazine's entertainment section. And yes, ...