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Media Highlights
Alex Epstein in Investor’s Business Daily
"Google Deserves To Be Celebrated, Not Persecuted By Trustbusters"
Yaron Brook Interviewed in Charleston Daily Mail
"Ayn Rand Relevant Today, Speaker Says"
Yaron Brook Quoted in The New York Times
"Wobbly Wind Sector Sets Sights on Stimulus"
Yaron Brook Interviewed in Newsweek
ARC’s Alex Epstein in Telegraph Blog
“What Capitalists Need to Understand.”
ARC’s Alex Epstein on The Fox Forum
“The Bailout: Just a $700 Billion Hedge Fund?”
ARC Featured at Time.com
“What Would Ayn Rand Have Done?”
Yaron Brook at Forbes.com
ARI Staff Writers in The Objective Standard
"Justice Holmes and the Empty Constitution," by Thomas A. Bowden
“Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and the World Today,” an interview with Yaron Brook
“The Morality of Moneylending: A Short History,” by Yaron Brook
“Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Autopsy,” by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein
“‘Just War Theory’ vs. American Self-Defense,” by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein
“The ‘Forward Strategy’ for Failure,” by Yaron Brook and Elan Journo
“Exposing Anti-Muslim ‘Conspiracies,’” by Elan Journo
“The Jihad on America,” by Elan Journo
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Academic News
Objectivist Academic Center (OAC)
For Students
- Regular Admission Deadline!
We are now accepting our final round of applications for the 2009-10 academic year. Submit your application by July 31! - We are now accepting registrations to audit the 2009-10 Seminar on Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism. Find out more about auditing here. You can also download a flyer here.
- Dr. Onkar Ghate, Dean of the OAC will speak at the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism's student conference, May 29-31.
- On July 7, the OAC is hosting a free information session at the Seaport Hotel in Boston. If you are interested in applying for the OAC, stop by!
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For Professors
- ARI can arrange for volume discounts of Ayn Rand’s works for classroom use
- The Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship makes gifts to universities in support of scholarship on Ayn Rand and her ideas, as well as offers a variety of resources for professors who teach Rand in the classroom.
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Atlas Shrugged
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(The 2009 deadline has passed)
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Conferences
July 3-11, 2009
Objectivist Summer Conference 2009
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"State of ARI" Presentations
Sunday, July 5, 2009
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This "State of ARI" presentation is part of Objectivist Summer Conference 2009 (see above). No registration or entrance fee is required.
Seaport World Trade Center
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ARC Lecture Series
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Atlas Shrugged
By Ayn Rand
The incomparable novel about the men of the mind on strike against the creed of self-sacrifice.
Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a continual bestseller as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most—and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor—and the motive power of every man?
Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life—from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy, to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction, to the philosopher who becomes a pirate, to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph, to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad, to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.
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