On this day in 1943, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was published. It tells the story of an impoverished architecture school dropout, Howard Roark, and how he navigates—or fails to navigate—the New York ...

The fictional Ellsworth Toohey, left, and Howard Roark, right, in the 1949 film adaptation of The Fountainhead. On Thursday morning conservative political operative and media owner Dan Proft responded ...

In a stroke of simple genius, Ayn Rand laid the cornerstone of her philosophy at the feet of a master builder. 1943’s The Fountainhead introduced the world to a laconic architect named Howard Roark. A ...

Neal Aronson admires Howard Roark more than anyone. Maybe you’ve heard of him, and maybe you haven’t, because Roark is the protagonist in Ayn Rand’s book, “The Fountainhead.” “He always stuck with his ...