New Ideal has an delightful article by Jeff Britting about Christmas at the O’Connors’: How Ayn Rand Celebrated: To celebrate Christmas, [New Ideal] asked Jeff Britting, former curator of the Ayn Rand Archives, to supply us with images and text from an...
Join the Ayn Rand Institute for their first ever European conference Ayn Rand Student Conference Europe 2019, February 15 to 17 in Prague, the Czech Republic.Don’t miss our first ever Ayn Rand Student Conference Europe (#AynRandConEurope). This weekend conference...
The eloquent Aaron Smith answers a New Ideal reader question Is There a Proof of Ayn Rand’s Ethics? in a short video. Dr. Smith emphasizes why such a philosophical proof is, and must be, inductive (as opposed to purely deducing conclusions from some chosen...
Leonard Peikoff appeared in interviews on WRNG in Atlanta, GA promoting his book, THE OMINOUS PARALLELS (1982). Recorded by Ed...
By Scott A. McConnell Every business, organization and movement needs criteria or standards to judge if it is succeeding or failing. The Objectivist movement is no different, but it is harder to determine the growth of Objectivism because it is an ideological movement...
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...
The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), the leading center for the advancement of Objectivism, today announced that its board of directors has unanimously chosen Tal Tsfany as the organization’s next president and chief executive officer (CEO). Tsfany, who currently serves as a...
Then Objectivist Summer Conference 2018 is for you! Objectivist Summer Conference 2018 will take place in beautiful Newport Beach, California, June 30–July 5. The conference celebrates the 75th anniversary of Ayn Rand’s bestselling novel The Fountainhead and how its...
Jason Crawford has written an extended summary of Steven Pinker’s new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress over at his blog Roots of Progress: Enlightenment Now is just what the world needs right now. It is a defense of the...
Have you read one of Ayn Rand’s thought-provoking novels? Now’s the time! Enter an Ayn Rand Institute essay contest for your chance to win thousands of dollars in cash prizes. ARI has held worldwide essay contests for students on Ayn Rand’s fiction for thirty years.... 
