“At the age of thirteen, Ayn Rand decided she was an atheist. Her 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 writings...
Professor Lee M.Pierson and Monroe Trout have written an important article on “What is consciousness for?” in New Ideas in Psychology (Volume 47, December 2017, Pages 62-71). From the introduction: Perhaps the greatest challenge faced by science today is...
Philosopher Onkar Ghate at The Ayn Rand Institute has a penetrating article on the anti-intellectualism of President Trump, aptly titled “Why Ayn Rand Would Have Despised a President Trump”. Quoting from the article: Trump’s salient characteristic as a...
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 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...
Mocked by some philosophers, adored by most readers – what is the lasting allure of Ayn Rand? Carrie-Ann Biondi, a Professor of Philosophy at Marymount Manhattan College, and an expert on Ayn Rand and Aristotle, answers this question in “The Courage to Face a...
From Into it: Cal Ripken – CSMonitor.com:We asked the baseball ‘iron man’ and motivational speaker what he’s watching, reading, and listening to. Reading? A lot of business books, including Jack Welch’s Winning. When you first start going...
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...
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...
From Voices for Reason – Graphic Novel Based on Atlas Shrugged to Be Published | The Ayn Rand InstituteWork is well underway on a new graphic novel based on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, to be published in the next couple of years by New American Library (NAL), a... 
