“Dr. Peikoff discusses the value of poetry and its capacity for enriching your life. Encouraging his listeners to “renounce your fear” of poetry, he blends dramatic readings with analysis, using his personal favorites as a window on the world of poetry. He gives...
In a Q&A session after Ayn Rand’s lecture “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business” in 1963, Ayn Rand’s indicated her opposition to government-mandated vaccinations and support for quarantining individuals infected with a contagious disease that...
Lisa VanDamme has an inspiring passion about the value-oriented raising of children and their education. Ayn Rand Centre UK is delighted to announce that she will join them for a weekly show on parenting, starting this Thursday at 7 pm UK time (2 pm Eastern). Also a...
In this episode of New Ideal Live, recorded live at the 2021 Objectivist Summer Conference in Austin, Texas, philosophers Onkar Ghate, Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza and Aaron Smith answer questions about Objectivism from the audience. Topics covered: • Whether philosophy...
Serious values in a fun world Dr. Leonard Peikoff, author of Objectivism The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, The Cause of Hiter’s Germany, and many other books, lectures, and courses, discusses the essential features of Viennese operetta, including story, music,...
From Harry Binswanger at HBL: [The] Ayn Rand Centre of the UK is launching what we hope will be the first of a new weekly series, “HBTV.” It’s aimed at those unfamiliar with Ayn Rand and Objectivism. I.e., for “the top of the funnel,” if you know that metaphor. The...
What is the proper meaning of “freedom of speech”? What does a right of free speech protect for the person who has it—and what obligations does it place on others? Are “Big Tech” companies and publishers guilty of censorship when they refuse to...