Our First Times Reading Atlas Shrugged

This video is a wonderful discussion between two Ayn Rand scholars — professors Ben Bayer and Greg Salmeiri — each warmly reminiscing about the first time they read Ayn Rand’s epic novel, Atlas Shrugged. The video is to kick off the launch of The...

The Atlas Shrugged Project: A Grand Esthetic Experience

The Ayn Rand Institute invites everyone to join The Atlas Project, an eight-month, chapter-by-chapter, online discussion of Atlas Shrugged. To facilitate the discussion, ARI will host a weekly interactive broadcast on Facebook Live led by experienced teachers to help...

Crawford on Having a Meaningful Debate on Objectivism

Jason makes some insightful comments on his old blog The Rational Egoist on creating a meaningful debate around Ayn Rand : The ridicule heaped on Rand and Objectivism is nothing new. All great new ideas are first ignored, then ridiculed, then attacked before they are...

President Trump is No Follower of Ayn Rand

The writers at The Washington Post would have us believe that Donald Trump’s cabinet picks resemble heroes from the pages of Ayn Rand’s novels (“The Daily 202: Ayn Rand-acolyte Donald Trump stacks his cabinet with fellow objectivists“). As a best-selling...

Penzler on Ayn Rand

From Otto Penzler: By the Book – The New York TimesWhat book might people be surprised to find on your shelves? I have virtually all the books written by Ayn Rand, several read more than once. She was the first person to have articulated so many of the things...

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