Ayn Rand

NSA surveillance puts George Orwell's '1984' on bestseller lists

2013-06-11 08:04:00

Big Brother is watching. And people are reading. Thanks to the ongoing National Security Administration surveillance scandal, George Orwell's "1984" is enjoying a surge in popularity, landing at No. 4 on Amazon's list of "Movers and Shakers." Sales of...

Ken Levine returns with ‘BioShock Infinite,’ but will he stay?

2013-03-22 05:12:20

High-tech incubator Blueseed not the first to target high seas

2013-03-13 09:07:00

PALO ALTO -- Forget building a startup. Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija want to build a startup colony. And they want to put it in the Pacific Ocean –- out of the reach of restrictive U.S. immigration laws they say keep high-skilled immigrants...

AIG and big banks are the 'Takers' taking from the rest of us

2013-01-10 05:00:00

In “The Fountainhead” and her other tomes of hyper-libertarian fantasy, Ayn Rand posits that society is composed of “Makers and Takers.” In her vision, it is the creative supermen of industry who are the Makers and it is the work-...

Maggie Simpson gets her Hollywood close-up

2012-07-16 16:33:17

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

The Siren's Call: Where's Rimbaud?

2012-04-29 00:00:00

In the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their "lost" years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he imprisoned in a cave or was he killed?), Shakespeare...

McManus: Mitt Romney stays put

2012-04-29 00:00:00

If you've been holding your breath to see whether Mitt Romney would pivot to the center now that it's a two-man race between him and President Obama, you can exhale; he won't. Romney made that clear in his victory speech after last week's primaries in...

Don Delillo's 'Cosmopolis,' via David Cronenberg [video]

2012-04-26 16:35:30

McManus: Don't close the GOP show

2012-03-22 00:00:00

We in the mainstream media harbor a dirty little secret: Most of us are rooting for Rick Santorum. It's nothing personal, although Santorum is a reasonably appealing guy. And it's not ideological; most of us aren't yearning for Bible-based social...

Tony Blankley dies at 63; press secretary to Speaker Newt Gingrich

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Reporting from Washington -- Tony Blankley, who gained notoriety as press secretary for Newt Gingrich during the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1990s and later as a conservative commentator on radio and television, has died. He was 63. The...

'Atlas Shrugged Part 2' to start production in April

2012-02-02 16:40:44

The book: Ayn Rand's novel is a touchstone for libertarians and remains wildly popular today. Why it's unfilmable: It's a novel of ideas -- characters deliver speeches that can run for 60 pages.

2012-10-24 20:16:08

His fortune was first made in the steamboat industry, taking advantage of the California gold rush, but ballooned once he began investing in railroads late in life. Known as "Commodore," he gave Vanderbilt University in Tennessee its initial endowment before launching.

2012-10-18 11:17:19

Ayn Rand

2012-05-29 14:17:00