MARINA DEL REY, CA -- Lawsuits against gun manufacturers are an unjust attack on the innocent. American intervention in Kosovo entails the altruistic sacrifice of Americans. Jack Kevorkian is a moral defender of a person's right to life. "Hate crimes" prosecute ideas not actions. These are just a few of the controversial moral arguments being made by Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) writers.
Since 1985, ARI has been offering rational and unique analyses and solutions to today's ethical problems, using Ayn Rand's revolutionary ethics, which hold that: "Man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he should not sacrifice himself to others, nor sacrifice others to himself." ARI's experts are neither liberal nor conservative -- they are radically pro-reason, pro-individual, pro-freedom.
ARI writers have explained to audiences across America why:
- America was formerly morally great but is now in decline.
- Environmentalism sacrifices man to nature.
- Volunteerism is an anti-American philosophy suited to a dictatorship.
- Film director Elia Kazan was morally justified in "naming names" in the 1950s.
ARI's experts are controversial, logical, colorful defenders of reason who can discuss any serious ethical issue.
- Michael Berliner -- executive director of ARI and former educator
- Andrew Bernstein -- professor of ethics and philosophy
- Gary Hull -- ethicist and co-editor of The Ayn Rand Reader
- Edwin Locke -- business and psychology professor, expert on business ethics
- Peter Schwartz -- editor and contributing author of Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution