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Terrorists are Motivated by their Religious Ideology

Islamists Are Motivated by Their Beliefs

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is Ethical

Culture 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

Celebrate Thanksgiving the Ayn Rand Way: Thank Yourself, by Debi Ghate
Christian Science Monitor, November 25, 2009

Diversity and Multiculturalism: The New Racism, By Michael S. Berliner and Gary Hull

Columbus Day: A Time to Celebrate, By Michael S. Berliner

 

Video & Audio

Thomas A. Bowden on Columbus Day

Video op-ed: "Columbus Day Celebrates Western Civilization"

Interview on The Schilling Show

Interview on The Helen Glover Show

 

Don Watkins on The Mike Slater Show

The American Revolution and the Tea Party Movement
April 10, 2009


“Cultural Movements: Creating Change”

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

Yaron Brook on ARI's Cultural Impact

"Atlas Shrugged: Its Influence after Fifty Years"
By Yaron Brook, at the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. To view this video, follow the link to "Video Indexado - Para conexiones rapidas."

Woodstock's Legacy: The Rise of Environmentalism and the Religious Right
By Yaron Brook (video lecture)

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

Religion and Morality
By Onkar Ghate (video lecture)

America vs. Americans
By Leonard Peikoff (video lecture)

Back to the Dark Ages? Today's Attacks on Reason and Individualism
By Peter Schwartz (video lecture)

 

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)

 

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Assault From the Ivory Tower
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Religion vs. America
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Modernism and Madness
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What to Do About Crime
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Multiculturalism and the Anti-Conceptual Mentality
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The Enemies of Christopher Columbus
By Thomas A. Bowden

 

"A nation's culture is the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men, which their fellow-citizens have accepted in the whole or in part, and which have influenced the nation's way of life. Since a culture is a complex battleground of different ideas and influences, to speak of a 'culture' is to speak only of dominant ideas, always allowing for the existence of dissenters and exceptions."

—Ayn Rand, "Don't Let It Go," Philosophy: Who Needs It? p. 250

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