Culture: History

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Our Moral Code Is Out of Date

Let's Take Back Columbus Day

Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial

The Meaning of the Right to Vote

What We Owe Our Soldiers

History Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

National Service Is Un-American

Vatican Doesn't Deserve a Statue of Galileo

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Columbus Day Celebrates Western Civilization

Ayn Rand's Legacy of Reason and Freedom

History Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

No Apology to Indians

The Inventors Were Great, But They Weren't 'Selfless'

Veterans Day

Reparations for Slavery Should Be Rejected

In Defense of Hollywood's Blacklist

History Letters Archive

 

Articles

Justice Holmes and the Empty Constitution
By Tom Bowden
The Objective Standard, Summer 2009

 

Video & Audio

Yaron Brook on ARI's Cultural Impact

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

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The Failure of the Homeland Defense: The Lessons from History
By John Lewis (audio lecture)

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George Washington: Integrity and the Founding of America
By John Ridpath (audio lecture)

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Columbus Day without Guilt
By Thomas A. Bowden (video lecture)

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In the Dawn’s Early Light: Patrick Henry—Beacon for America
By John Ridpath (audio lecture)

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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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“It is the philosophy of the mysticism-altruism-collectivism axis that has brought us to our present state and is carrying us toward a finale such as that of the society presented in Atlas Shrugged. It is only the philosophy of the reason-individualism-capitalism axis that can save us and carry us, instead, toward the Atlantis projected in the last two pages of my novel.”

—Ayn Rand, “Is Atlas Shrugging?” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, p. 165

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