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Yaron Brook Interviewed in Newsweek

Who Is To Blame?


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What Capitalists Need to Understand


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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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"Charlize Revives Atlas"


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"The July 16, 1969 Launch: A Symbol of Man's Greatness"


Ayn Rand and Farrah Fawcett

"Farrah's Brainy Side"


Atlas Shrugged featured at Bloomberg.com

"Rand’s Atlas is Shrugging with a Growing Load"


Yaron Brook on CNN

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Yaron Brook on The Fox Forum

The Ayn Rand Renaissance


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"The American Revolution and the Tea Party Movement"


Onkar Ghate in BusinessWeek

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Atlas Shrugged: America’s Second Declaration of Independence

 

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Nation in Financial Crisis: Causes and Solutions
A panel discussion featuring Yaron Brook and Jerry Jordan
Recorded May 20, 2009

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A Critique of Climate Change Science and Policy
A panel discussion featuring Keith Lockitch and Willie Soon
Recorded April 13, 2009
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The Financial Crisis: Causes and Possible Cures
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The Financial Crisis: What Happened and Why

A lecture course delivered by Yaron Brook at Objectivist Summer Conference 2009

“Cultural Movements: Creating Change”

A three-lecture series from Objectivist Summer Conference 2008. Each lecture is approximately 90 minutes.

Ayn Rand and Free Markets

June 4, 2009
An interview with Don Watkins on Free Markets with Dr. Mike Beitler

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“Making a Virtue of Selfishness? A Debate about Ayn Rand’s Ethics”

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New Book from ARI

Winning the Unwinnable War

Winning the Unwinnable War is a provocative new book from the Ayn Rand Institute that offers principled and compelling answers to the problems and confusions that plague American foreign policy. Years after 9/11 and in the shadow of two protracted U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East, the enemy is not only undefeated but emboldened and resurgent. What went wrong—and what should we do going forward?

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Atlas Shrugged

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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