Two thirds done! I will admit I flipped ahead to the next page after the end of Part II and was thrilled to discover it was finally time to introduce John Galt as a character, right there at the start ...

Dagny Taggart is not just the entrepreneurial heroine of Ayn Rand’s magnum opus novel, Atlas Shrugged. She is the inspiration of real women everywhere who are taking up her shield and fighting her ...

THE BUSINESS: A new movie from Ayn Rand’s best-seller may be first to market through movement’s followers. By Paul Bond Taylor Schilling (center) brings lead Dagny Taggart to life in "Atlas Shrugged: ...

"The book was incredibly informative for me," says actress Samantha Mathis who plays Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged Part II, "in terms of figuring out [Dagny's] backstory and where she came from, and ...

n Atlas Shrugged Part 2, Samantha Mathis plays Dagny Taggart, the heroine who runs a railroad in the face of mounting interference. In this interview, she talks about how she prepared for the role, ...

Russian-born American novelist Ayn Rand poses in front of Grand Central Terminal, or Atlas Shrugged's Taggart Terminal, in 1962. The recent film adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, is ...

The people behind the “Atlas Shrugged” series of films have things they want to tell you, and just to make sure that you know what they are, the movies tell you, and tell you, and then tell you again.

I come to Atlas Shrugged, then, not as a teenager but as an adult. I also come as a student of social and political thought and literature, as someone who has spent many hours reading and thinking and ...

The sex scene almost makes it worth sitting through Atlas Shrugged III, the last and least of the cheapjack adaptations of Ayn Rand’s brick-thick celebration of taking your ball and going home. About ...

The recent film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, is exposing a whole new generation of conservatives to Rand’s laissez-faire philosophy. And if they find themselves wanting more, ...