The Latest Breaking News from Ayn Rand

Jane Fonda is joining forces with more than 500 celebrities and Hollywood heavyweights to defend free speech.

In Silicon Valley’s unofficial literary canon, few works loom as large as The Sovereign Individual. A kind of survival manual for 21st-century tech billionaires, it has been enthusiastically championed by Palantir and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel (mentor to JD Vance), who wrote the foreword to the 2020 edition.

"All these government programs that regulate and control, they institutionalize mediocrity at best," argues Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute.

Plus: Taibbi takes on the Truth Czar, a wild tale about Ayn Rand's estate, and more...

Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty explores the evolution of libertarian thought in his new book.

Bob Poole recalls his Reason Foundation co-founder, a brilliant bon vivant.

Large tax cuts for the rich, import tariffs, and the competing interests of Republican nationalists and the techno-right is a dangerous combination, says economist Jonathan Portes

What the Russian-born author would have thought of Russia's war in Ukraine

The federal leviathan can’t be dismantled by executive action alone. To truly cut spending and rein in the bureaucracy, the administration needs buy-in from the branch that built it.