RadioAmerica’s G. Gordon Liddy is devoting a special broadcast of his nationally syndicated three-hour talk radio show to Ayn Rand, her philosophy, and understanding the current state of events through the lens of Objectivism. The broadcast will air live on Monday,...
In The Fountainhead, novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand fully dramatizes the moral theory of rational egoism–the theory which holds that it is each person’s responsibility to choose his goals and values by use of his independent reasoning mind; and that it is...
Irvine, CA—Since the publication of Ayn Rand’s first novel, We the Living, 72 years ago, sales of her books increased exponentially, having recently reached the mark of 25 million copies, a staggering figure considering the length of her two major novels and the...
From the Myrtle Beach Sun News — BB&T gifts with Ayn Rand requirements draw criticism at schools: Recommended Reading: Hostile-To-Reason Academics Fear Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged by Craig BiddleAre the sweating academics concerned that students who...
AUSTIN, Texas — BB&T Corporation, one of the nation’s largest banks, has awarded $2 million to the Department of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin to establish the BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism. Tara Smith, professor of...
IRVINE, CA–With a shipment of 80,000 books in January, the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) has placed more than 1 million copies of Ayn Rand’s novels in the hands of high school teachers and their students across North America. This astounding number of books has...
The following article by Dr. Michael Berliner, Ph.D. is a revised excerpt from “Reviews of Atlas Shrugged,” a chapter in Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” (ed. Robert Mayhew), due in 2009 from Lexington Books. Dr. Berliner is the senior advisor to the Ayn Rand...
Through a special arrangement with the publisher, the editor and the Estate of Ayn Rand, ARI has received permission to present The Ayn Rand Lexicon—now available in its entirety, free of charge, to Web visitors. Edited by Harry Binswanger, and with an introduction by...
IRVINE, Calif.–Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” is the subject of a new exhibit to open on October 8, 2007, at the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the novel’s publication, the...
Ayn Rand: A Legacy of Reason and Freedom by Michael BerlinerBorn 100 years ago in Holy Mother Russia and educated under the Soviets, Ayn Rand became the quintessential American writer and philosopher, upholding the supreme value of the individual’s life on...