I have decided to write another book, tentatively titled For the Love of Wisdom. It is going to be the sum of all my thinking about...

Following Ayn Rand too closely stranded me on a mountain peak. Here's how I came down.

Howard Roark is no statue. This is the story of his development as a human character.

I really enjoyed Greek mythology as a boy, but I was never much interested in Atlas. His brother Prometheus, who created humankind and...

How to become who you are naturally rather than by force.

The paradoxical characters of Oskar Schindler, Howard Roark and Shakespeare's Brutus

Architecture is the interface between man and nature. An opportunity for a theme!

Some characters are perfectly realized without being merely allegorical.

A guide to saying Yes and saying No. Dr Seabury got there 20 years before Miss Rand.

You would expect Ayn Rand not to like the concept of "surrender," but sometimes she does.

In which the sense of life in Beethoven's Fifth is compared to that of Atlas Shrugged.

To judge or not to judge, that is the question.

My thesis is that John Galt, hero of Ayn Rand's magnum opus Atlas Shrugged, can be regarded as an "alternative Christ." An alternative...