Check Your Premises is the blog of The Ayn Rand Society, a professional group affiliated with the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division. According to Professor Ben Bayer the blog’s editor: I will work to allow the contributors to this blog—all...
Ayn Rand College Grant Program Should Be Applauded For Breaking Through The Anti-Reason, Anti-Capitalist, Far-Left College Echo Chamber From Inside Higher Ed: Fears of corporate influence on higher education are nothing new. But are colleges and universities, which...
From Is Hillary Clinton a ‘statist’? – CSMonitor.com:The term to describe an advocate of statism has been around for years but has soared in popularity in recent decades, according to Google’s Ngram Viewer. One explanation is the enduring fondness...
From Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand | Playboy:Has no religion, in your estimation, ever offered anything of constructive value to human life? Qua religion, no – in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and the conclusions...
From Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy – Elucidations: This month, we discuss Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy with Greg Salmieri, who teaches at Rutgers University and Stevens Institute of Technology and is co-secretary of the American...
The Undercurrent has an excellent interview with Onkar Ghate on Free Speech vs. Religion: Dr. Onkar Ghate is a senior fellow and the Chief Content Officer at the Ayn Rand Institute. He has written and lectured extensively on philosophy and serves as Dean for the...
At the age of thirteen, Ayn Rand decided she was an atheist. Ayn Rand’s reason: “the concept of God is degrading to man.” One major form of this degradation is religion’s effect on genuine values, including sacred values. This idea is prominent in her early...
In this panel discussion with audience participation, philosophers Onkar Ghate and Robert Mayhew discuss the “New Atheists”—including Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins—contrasting their approach to moral values with that of Ayn...
BBC has a creative cartoon sketch on Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, which is pretty good and well-meaning for the most part in the dialogue, though it gets a few things wrong (and some of the artistic interpretations are reprehensible, i.e., equating the dollar sign...
From Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. – Bloomberg Business:Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.... 
