Government & Policy

Op-Eds

To Protect the Defenseless, We Must Abolish the Minimum Wage [Forbes.com]

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

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

Capitalism in No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It [Forbes.com]

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

Government & Policy Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

The Ayn Rand Center Offers Blueprint for Freedom

The Real Threat to Human Life: Climate Change Alarmism

Obama's Health Care Deception

A "Uniquely American" Health Care Plan

Health Care is Not a Right

Government & Policy Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

He's No Rand Disciple

Supporters of Smoking Bans Are Ignoring a Crucial Danger

Britain Should Start "Easing" Government Stranglehold on the Economy

No Copyright Exceptions

Government Found Guilty of Assaulting the Economy

Government & Policy Letters Archive

 

Articles

What Would Ayn Rand Say?, an interview with Yaron Brook in The Vertex

An Interview with Yaron Brook (Part I), (Part II) at Free Market Mojo

Climate Vulnerability and the Indispensable Value of Industrial Capitalism (PDF), by Keith Lockitch. Published in Energy & Environment, Vol. 20, No. 5, 2009

America’s Unfree Market, by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins

Atlas Shrugged and the Housing Crisis that Government Built, by Yaron Brook

Moral Health Care vs. “Universal Health Care”, by Lin Zinser and Paul Hsieh, published in the Winter 2007–2008 issue of The Objective Standard

Property Rights and the Crisis of the Electric Grid, by Raymond C. Niles, published in the Summer 2008 issue of The Objective Standard

The Morality of Moneylending: A Short History, by Yaron Brook, published in the Fall 2007 issue of The Objective Standard

The Decline and Fall of American Conservatism, by C. Bradley Thompson, published in the Fall 2006 issue of The Objective Standard

Vindicating Capitalism: The Real History of the Standard Oil Company, by Alex Epstein, published in the Summer 2008 issue of The Objective Standard

 

Video & Audio

The Financial Crisis: What Happened and Why

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

Thomas A. Bowden Interviewed about the Supreme Court

From The G. Gordon Liddy Show, May 28, 2009:


Don Watkins on The Mike Slater Show

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


Capitalism Without Guilt: The Moral Case for Freedom

By Yaron Brook
Recorded October 22, 2008, at the National Press Club [more info]

Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein on Real Orange (KOCE)

October 19, 2008

Yaron Brook on Fox Business News

October 10, 2008
» More Fox Business News appearances

The Resurgence of Big Government

By Yaron Brook
Recorded September 18, 2008 [more info]

Yaron Brook on Capitalism

A lecture by Yaron Brook at Chapman University. See the full seven-part series on YouTube.

For more videos, please visit the Government & Policy Video Archives.

 

ARC on Time.com

The Ayn Rand Center is featured in an article at Time Magazine's Web site: "What Would Ayn Rand Have Done?" ARC Executive Director Yaron Brook discusses the current expansion of government power.

 

Online Debates

The Ayn Rand Center has been invited to participate in an online debate on the question "Should Abortion Be Legal?"

The debate is hosted by Opposing Views, a new Web site that sponsors online debates on questions regarding current news and events.

 

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.

Fighting Statism
By Justin Blackman
American Thinker, April 25, 2010

National service bill makes ‘volunteerism’ compulsory
By Lucy Hugel
Pennlive.com, March 30, 2009

 

Ayn Rand on Government & Policy

“Man’s Rights” (an article)

“Collectivized ‘Rights’” (an article)

“The Nature of Government” (an article)

Conservatism: An Obituary (audio lecture)

"Let Us Alone!" (audio interview)

The Nature of Rights (audio interview)

Objective Law (audio interview)

Politics of a Free Society (audio interview)

The Structure of Government (audio interview)

Censorship: Local and Express (audio lecture)

The Moratorium on Brains (audio lecture)

The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus (audio lecture)

The Wreckage of the Consensus (audio lecture)

 

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—Ayn Rand, “Galt’s Speech,” For the New Intellectual, p. 231

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