About

Scott Holleran

After working in a variety of jobs, including as a busboy, congressional staffer, and professional dancer, I began writing as a newspaper correspondent in 1991. Guest columns led to front page assignments in news, sports, and entertainment. After a stint as an assistant on Leonard Peikoff’s talk radio show, I was asked to conduct the Los Angeles Times Interview and a series of interviews for the Philadelphia Inquirer with each 2000 presidential contender, including Bill Bradley, John McCain, and George W. Bush.

In 2000, I covered the Elian Gonzalez controversy, reporting a worldwide exclusive when I became the first reporter to meet and interview the asylum-seeking child at the Miami house where he would later be seized by the state at gunpoint and forced to return to Communist Cuba. Within weeks of the September 11, 2001, Islamic totalitarian attack on America, I created a newsletter (currently on hiatus) and, in a 2002 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, I argued that Iran is the West’s foremost enemy.

From 2002 to 2008, I turned to movies, writing news, reviews, a column, and interviews—for Box Office Mojo, a top-rated Hollywood Web site in which I was an editor and partner. I left the partnership when we sold the site to Amazon.com’s Internet Movie Database and I applied for admission to the Ayn Rand Institute’s Objectivist Academic Center in Irvine, California. I am currently working on several creative projects and I continue to look for new and thought-provoking challenges and opportunities.