Culture: Other Current Issues

Op-Eds

We Should Be Embarrassed by the Sequester Debate [Politix.com]

'Give Back' Is One of the World's Most Impoverishing Commands [Forbes.com]

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]

Other Cultural Issues Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

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

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Park City Sophomore Wins Two Grand!

Objectivist Summer Conference 2010 Sets New Attendance Record!

Beck Show Boosts "Atlas Shrugged" Sales

Other Cultural Issues Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

Oprah Is Right to Reject Unearned Guilt

South Park and the Muhammad Cartoons

Borders' Capitulation is a Victory for Islamic Totalitarians

NYU Chooses Appeasement Over Rights

Indecency Fines Against CBS Are an Ominous Attack on Free Speech

Other Cultural Issues Letters Archive

 

Video & Audio

National Service

Alex Epstein discusses how the call for national service is immoral on The Caldwell Show

Part 1

Part 2

Yaron Brook on ARI's Cultural Impact

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

Woodstock's Legacy: The Rise of Environmentalism and the Religious Right

 

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

Atlas Shrugged—America's Second Declaration of Independence

 

Religion and Morality
By Onkar Ghate (video lecture)

Religion and Morality

 

America vs. Americans
By Leonard Peikoff (video lecture)

America vs. Americans

 

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

Back to the Dark Ages? Today's Attacks on Reason and Individualism

 

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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Modernism and Madness
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Multiculturalism and the Anti-Conceptual Mentality
By Peter Schwartz

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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