How much compassion is due someone who quite publicly hated the very idea of compassion? This question kept haunting me as I read Alexandra Popoff’s new biography of Alisa Rosenbaum, better known to ...

Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is ...

Anne C. Heller, author of the biography "Ayn Rand and the World She Made" speaks with WSJ's Steven Kurutz about the days when Ayn Rand was the "talk of the town." She also discusses an upcoming ...

The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death. By David Marchese The trope of the embattled auteur exerting their will is too ...