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...

Plato and Aristotle agreed that philosophy starts in wonder, but wonder is a much broader feeling than what they meant. There is...

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

Meet Beth Harmon. She is the Mozart of chess, but can she beat her demons?

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

The name of one of music history's most most difficult sets of sonatas is unknown, but its beauty is evident.

These gangsters give you a lesson you can't refuse.

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

Strong-willed industrialist meets empathetic idealist in the 1800s. Can they bridge the gap?

Despite the differences we are tending in the direction of Huxley's hedonistic dystopia.

Essays on authenticity. And vampires. And hugs. And musicians.

What contemporary songs can tell us about our epic conflict.

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.