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    Speakers Bureau
 
ARI speakers are available for talks sponsored by campus Objectivist clubs and other campus organizations.  Please contact Campus Club Advisor, Matt Ludin, mattl@aynrand.org, 877-481-2855, if you are interested in hosting a speaker on your campus.
 
  
    Terrorism     The Failure of the Homeland Defense: Lessons from History,” by John Lewis
 
Why We Are Losing the War,” by Yaron Brook
 
The World in Crisis: An Objectivist Perspective,” by Yaron Brook
 
America at War: The Moral Imperative to Self-Defense,” by Andrew Bernstein
 
The Moral Case for Supporting Israel,” by Yaron Brook
 
Twin Towers Destroyed By the Ivory Tower: How America’s Universities Harbor the Ideas that Spread Terrorism,” by Gary Hull
 
Terrorism and Its Appeasement: Why a Great Nation Is Assaulted,” by Richard M. Salsman
 
Terrorism and the Moral Failure of American Foreign Policy,” by Andrew Lewis
 
Terrorism and the Morality of Self-Defense,” by Peter Schwartz
 
  
    General Introduction     Introduction to Objectivism,” by Andrew Bernstein
 
Introduction to Objectivism,” by Andrew Lewis
 
Objectivism: Ayn Rand’s Philosophic Revolution,” by Harry Binswanger
 
An Introduction to Ayn Rand’s Philosophy: Objectivism,” by Gary Hull
 
Rights — Reason — Reality: Ayn Rand’s Answer to the Intellectual Crisis of Our Time,” by John Ridpath
 
  
    Basic Philosophy     Ayn Rand’s Theory of Free Will,” by Harry Binswanger
 
The Problem of Universals: Failed Attempts and Ayn Rand’s Solution,” by Gary Hull
 
Bridging the ‘Is’-‘Ought’ Gap: How to Derive Morality from Facts,” by Harry Binswanger
 
The Role of Ideas in History: The Birth of the Renaissance,” by Andrew Lewis
 
  
    Ethics and Political Philosophy     The Virtue of Selfishness: Ayn Rand’s Radical Code of Morality,” by Peter Schwartz
 
Ayn Rand vs. Friedrich Nietzsche: Who is the True Individualist?,” by John Ridpath
 
Ayn Rand and the History and Importance of the Concept of Individual Rights,” by John Ridpath
 
Pro-Choice Is Pro-Life: The Philosophic Basis of a Woman’s Right to an Abortion,” by Andrew Bernstein
 
What Young People Really Need: Heroes and Happiness, Not Volunteerism,” by Andrew Bernstein
 
The Moral Case for Supporting Israel,” by Yaron Brook
 
Why Modern Intellectuals Deny the Concept of Evil,” by Edwin Locke
 
Productiveness as the Central Purpose of the Good Life,” by Andrew Lewis
 
The Objectivist Ethics,” by Andrew Lewis

Post-Modernism vs. Religion vs. Objectivism: Which Is the Proper Code of Morality for Living on Earth?,” by Edwin Locke
 
 
  
    Philosophy of Science     The Fall of Physics—and Its Cause,” by David Harriman
 
Galileo’s Fight for Reason,” by David Harriman
 
Physicists Lost in Space,” by David Harriman
 
  
    Capitalism: Theory     A Utopia of Greed: Ayn Rand’s Moral Defense of Laissez-faire Capitalism,” by Richard Salsman
 
Laissez-Faire Capitalism: The System of Freedom and Justice” (a half-hour presentation followed by an extended question-and-answer period), by Harry Binswanger
 
The Morality of Capitalism,” by John Ridpath
 
Ayn Rand vs. Adam Smith: Who Is the True Founder of Capitalism?” by John Ridpath
 
Debate: “Capitalism or the Welfare State: Which Is the Moral System?” (available individually or as a two-man team: John Ridpath, Richard Salsman)
 
Debate: “Conservatives: Friends or Enemies of Capitalism?” (Richard Salsman)
 
The Myth of Scarcity,” by Andrew Lewis
 
The Virtue of Profit: Why Businessmen Need Ayn Rand’s Morality of Rational Selfishness,” By Gary Hull
 
Money-Lending: Its History and Philosophy” by Yaron Brook
 
  
    Capitalism: Practice     Arresting the Social Security Robber Barons: How to Restore the Freedom to Save and Retire With Dignity,” by Richard Salsman
 
The Case for Free Banking and the Gold Standard,” by Richard Salsman
 
The Case for Pure and Unilateral Free Trade” by Richard Salsman
 
The Great Depression: Why It Happened and How the Scapegoating of Capitalism Still Burdens Us Today,” by Richard Salsman
 
The Health Care Crisis Yet to Come: Evil and Folly in Socialized Medicine,” by Richard Salsman
 
The Heroic Nature of Business Titans and the Evil of ’Robber Baron’ Smear Campaigns,” by Richard Salsman
 
The Injustice of the Anti-trust Laws as Reflected in the High-Tech Lynching of Microsoft,” by Richard Salsman
 
“National Health Care: The Death of the Medical Profession,” Peter LePort, M.D. (a version of Leonard Peikoff’s talk “Medicine: The Death of a Profession”)
 
A New Tax Policy That Advances Capitalism,” by Richard Salsman
 
The Philosophic State of Economics: An Objectivist Perspective,” by Richard Salsman
 
Today’s Health Care Crisis,” by Andrew Lewis
 
Who’s Saving, America?” by Richard Salsman
 
  
    Literature     The Mind As Hero in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged,” by Andrew Bernstein
 
Rational Egoism in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead,” by Andrew Bernstein
 
  
    Psychology     Reason and Emotion: Ayn Rand’s Solution to a 2,000-Year-Old Problem,” by Edwin Locke
 
The Objectivist Concept of Self-Esteem,” by Edwin Locke
 
  
    “Political Correctness”     Your Professors’ War Against the Mind: The Black Hole of Post-Modernism and Multiculturalism,” by Gary Hull
 
The Neo-Puritan Assault on Sex and Pleasure,” by Gary Hull
 
Diversity: Racism in the 21st Century,” by Andrew Lewis
 
The New Primitivism: Today’s Attacks on Reason and Individualism,” by Peter Schwartz
 
  
    Environmentalism     Capitalism and the Environment: The Virtues of ’Exploitation,’” by Richard Salsman
 
Environmentalism: Sacrificing Man to Nature,” by Peter Schwartz
 
The Case Against Animal Rights,” by Edwin Locke
 
Debate: “Nature: To Be Preserved or Exploited?” (Richard Salsman)
 
  
    Speaker Affiliations     Andrew Bernstein
 
Harry Binswanger
 
Yaron Brook
 
David Harriman
 
Gary Hull
 
Peter LePort
 
Andrew Lewis
 
John Lewis
 
Edwin Locke
 
John Ridpath
 
Richard Salsman
 
Peter Schwartz
 
  
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