Specialties: Ayn Rand’s novels, Capitalism, Free Market, Free Trade, Education, Philosophy of Education, Multiculturalism, Objectivism, Philosophy

Dr. Bernstein is a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Marist College; he also teaches at SUNY Purchase (which selected him Outstanding Teacher for 2004) and formerly at Pace University, and Marymount College (which selected him Outstanding Teacher for 1995). Dr. Bernstein lectures regularly at American universities and appears frequently on the radio talk shows. His op-eds have been published in such newspapers as The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Daily News, and The Houston Chronicle. Dr. Bernstein is the author of three Ayn Rand titles for CliffsNotes: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and Anthem. He also authored Penguin’s Teacher’s Guide to The Fountainhead, and The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire.

Lectures

• Global Capitalism: The Solution to World Oppression and Poverty
• Capitalism: The System of the Mind
• Refuting the Moral Accusations Against Capitalism
• “Robber Barons” as Productive Geniuses
• Philosophic Basis of a Woman’s Right to Abortion
• Philosophic and Literary Integration in Atlas Shrugged
• Rational Egoism in The Fountainhead
• Video Course on The Fountainhead

Books

• The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire
• Anthem CliffsNotes
• The Fountainhead CliffsNotes
• Atlas Shrugged CliffsNotes
• Penguin’s Teacher’s Guide to “The Fountainhead”

Essays

• The Tragedy of Theology: How Religion Caused and Extended the Dark Ages

Op-Eds

Letters to the Editor