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Mayors come and go, but New York City remains fundamentally itself.

The co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange later created some failed Ayn Rand–inspired superheroes.

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.

In her 1962 essay "Have Gun, Will Nudge," Rand explained exactly how the public interest standard would lead to censorship.

Along with punching out impressive drum parts, he brought Tolkien, Twain and Wilde to bear on the world of prog. Here are just 10 of his best moments

A zippy script can't make up for a lack of insight.

The Reason Foundation co-founder took seriously the idea that libertarians should win—not just in the courts but also in the broader culture.

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

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