Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged (1999)

This review will please absolutely no one. Indeed, this rating sorely tests me and tests all the standards that I set for myself when evaluating books. It is important to me to be fair and to purge my own inconsistency and hypocrisy whenever I find it. My knee-jerk reaction is to assign this one-...

The Fountainhead (1996)

Note, Feb. 2011: The feedback I've gotten on this review is kind of funny. I'd like to make one thing clear, and that is that I'm far from a Rand worshipper. I can't get onboard with her whole way of life, from the personal to the political level. I will say, though, that I think her attitudes, w...

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1986)

Would I call it a good read (get it?Goodreads?). No...but had you given it to me with the express purpose to enlighten me into the political controversies of the 1960's onward. Not occluding our last political debate here in 2012 with its United States presidential election, I'd say Rand might we...

The Journals of Ayn Rand (1999)

The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction (1986)

El manantial (2006)