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ArticlesCelebrate Thanksgiving the Ayn Rand Way: Thank Yourself, by Debi Ghate Columbus Day: A Time to Celebrate, By Michael S. Berliner.
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Ayn Rand on CultureApollo 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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"The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying. . . stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure."—Ayn Rand, "The Objectivist Calendar," The Ayn Rand Letter, Dec. 1976 |
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