Shashwat Mishra introduces Ayn Rand’s massive novel promoting self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism. Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957, is a novel by Russian-American philosopher Ayn Rand. It’s ...

Rand wrote several best-selling novels, including, most notably, Atlas Shrugged. This is a book of great length which includes an extraordinarily long speech by the protagonist, John Galt. Rand also ...

During the 1940s and 1950s, she was much in demand on TV shows and university campuses. Her most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged, appeared in 1957 and became another bestseller, despite clocking in at ...

‘From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged,” Whittaker Chambers wrote here 53 years ago, “a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To a gas chamber — go!’” What he did ...