Literature
Read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Ron Pisaturo | 17 April 2011
The novel deals with the role of the mind in all aspects of man’s life, including science, business, art, love, and sex. It deals extensively with the role of the mind in one crucial, often misunderstood, aspect of man’s life: the production of material goods. The novel focuses most on one kind of producer, what Ayn Rand called “America’s persecuted minority”: the businessmen.
The novel deals with the role of the mind in all aspects of man’s life, including science, business, art, love, and sex. It deals extensively with the role of the mind in one crucial, often misunderstood, aspect of man’s life: the production of material goods. The novel focuses most on one kind of producer, what Ayn Rand called “America’s persecuted minority”: the businessmen.
Differing Reactions to Ayn Rand's Novel Atlas Shrugged
Harry Binswanger | 10 February 2011A lot of people are really put off by Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.
Huckleberry Finn to Eat Soap
Edward Cline | 10 January 2011A publisher will come out next month with the text of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn cleansed of all 219 occurrences of the word nigger. Also, the feelings and tribal “self-esteem” of American Indians have been protected by Gribben in the same novel, as well. Excised from it is the term injun.
The Missing Link in Dystopian Novels
Edward Cline | 15 November 2010At their very best, dystopian novels and films, particularly those with a clear dramatization of the choices between freedom and slavery, freedom of thought and servile parroting, productive work and drudgery for the state, and revolution and submission, can lose one for a time in an imaginary world where those choices parallel the ones necessary in the real.
Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand's Morality of Egoism (Part 2 of 3)
Craig Biddle | 14 August 2010Ayn Rand demanded reasons for her convictions. So should we.
A Whiff of Perfume
Edward Cline | 3 August 2010An excerpt from Ed Cline's detective novel, China Basin.
The Radicalness of Atlas Shrugged
Onkar Ghate | 26 July 2010A book which deserves to be read and re-read.
When the Sun Rises in the West
Edward Cline | 7 July 2010As a respite from political commentary, I offer here a chapter from We Three Kings, a suspense novel I completed in 1980.
Who Runs Taggart Transcontinental?
Ayn Rand | 2 May 2010"The Theme" by Ayn Rand, Author of Atlas Shrugged
Philosopher Robert Mayhew on Ayn Rand's Novel: We the Living
Scott Holleran | 11 January 2010We the Living is not about Soviet Russia in 1925--it's a novel about any dictatorship, anywhere, and hopefully it will prevent one in the United States.
Dollars and Crosses
- Salsman on Conservatives Mixing of Religion and Politics
- Jump Start Your Thinking Complimentary Teleclass February 16
- Blame Big Government, Not Big Banks
- Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor


