Culture: Ayn Rand

Op-Eds

3 crucial lessons Ayn Rand can teach us today [FoxNews.com]

A Liberal Ayn Rand? [Huffington Post]

President Obama Duels With Ayn Rand Over What Makes America Great [Forbes.com]

Time to Read Ayn Rand? [PJMedia.com]

Why Ayn Rand's Absence From Last Thursday's Debate Benefits Big Government [Forbes.com]

Ayn Rand Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

On 55th Anniversary of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand More Prominent Than Ever

"Atlas Shrugged" Still Flying Off Shelves!

Study Ayn Rand's Ideas

Ayn Rand Facebook Page Reaches more than 100,000 Admirers

Beck Show Boosts "Atlas Shrugged" Sales

Ayn Rand Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

Atlas Shrugged and the Pyramid of Ability

Reason Needs No Supplement

Radicals for Capitalism

Judge Atlas Shrugged for Yourself

Ayn Rand's Ideas Are Priceless

Ayn Rand Letters Archive

 

Articles

Edwin A. Locke comments on Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

Leonard Peikoff discusses Ayn Rand and philosophy in an interview with Steve Cohen

Robert Mayhew reviews new Ayn Rand biography, from The Objective Standard, Winter 2009-2010

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and the World Today, An Interview with Yaron Brook

 

Video & Audio

Atlas Shrugged in Today's World

Don Watkins on Alive at Five


Atlas Shrugged
and Its Relevance Today

Thomas A. Bowden on The G. Gordon Liddy Show

Thomas A. Bowden on WKRC Radio (MP3 hosted by WKRC)

Thomas A. Bowden on Sound Off Connecticut


Ayn Rand: A Life in Writing

By Thomas A. Bowden
Recorded at the Tustin Library, August 20, 2008

Yaron Brook on ARI's Cultural Impact

My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir
By Leonard Peikoff

Discussion of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: Chapter by Chapter
By Onkar Ghate (video lectures)

A Study of Galt's Speech
By Onkar Ghate (video lectures)

Video course on The Fountainhead
By Dr. Andrew Bernstein (video lectures)

Atlas Shrugged—America's Second Declaration of Independence
By Onkar Ghate (video lecture)

 

Debates

"Making a Virtue of Selfishness? A Debate about Ayn Rand's Ethics"

» MP3 download
Featuring Onkar Ghate and Michael Huemer. Hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder's THINK series.

 

Ayn Rand on Culture

Apollo 11—The July 16, 1969 Launch: A Symbol of Man’s Greatness (an article)

The Age of Mediocrity (audio lecture)

Apollo and Dionysus (audio lecture)

Cultural Update (audio lecture)

Global Balkanization (audio lecture)

The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age (audio lecture)

Is Atlas Shrugging? (audio lecture)

The Moral Factor (audio lecture)

Of Living Death (audio lecture)

Our Cultural Value-Deprivation (audio lecture)

 

Commentary from Other Sources

From time to time, ARC posts commentary from outside sources that we think may be of interest to our readers. Please note that the following items were not produced by ARC and do not necessarily reflect our views. For commentary by ARC writers, please see the Op-Eds, Articles, Press Releases and Video & Audio sections of this page.

Lessons from John Galt
By Dan Freeman
Andrew Breitbart presents Big Government, December 24, 2009

Ayn Rand as Prophet
By Amit Ghate
Pajamas Media, April 13, 2009

 

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The Ominous Parallels
By Leonard Peikoff

Assault From the Ivory Tower
By Leonard Peikoff

Religion vs. America
By Leonard Peikoff

Some Notes About Tomorrow
By Leonard Peikoff

Modernism and Madness
By Leonard Peikoff

What to Do About Crime
By Leonard Peikoff

Multiculturalism and the Anti-Conceptual Mentality
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The Enemies of Christopher Columbus
By Thomas A. Bowden

 

 

“Ayn Rand made a profound impact both as a philosopher who defined a new philosophic system, Objectivism, and as a novelist of penetrating insight and vision. Her novels are based on heroic ideals, demonstrating her famous maxim (from which she drew the title of her first best-seller) that, ‘man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.’”

—Jeff Britting, Introduction, Ayn Rand p. 250

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