Culture: Traditions & Holidays

Op-Eds

Let's Take Back Columbus Day
Thursday, October 8, 2009
By: Thomas Bowden

The Real Meaning of Earth Hour
Monday, March 23, 2009
By: Keith Lockitch

What to Resolve This New Year
Thursday, January 1, 2009
By: Alex Epstein

Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial
Thursday, December 25, 2008
By: Leonard Peikoff

What We Owe Our Soldiers
Monday, November 3, 2008
By: Alex Epstein

Traditions & Holidays Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

Vatican Doesn't Deserve a Statue of Galileo
Monday, September 8, 2008
By: Keith Lockitch

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Saturday, January 19, 2008
By: Thomas Bowden

Columbus Day Celebrates Western Civilization
Thursday, October 4, 2007
By: Thomas Bowden

The False Equation of Secularism with "Political Correctness"
Thursday, December 23, 2004
By: Yaron Brook

We Salute Our Vets
Thursday, November 4, 2004
By: Edwin Locke

Traditions & Holidays Press Release Archive

 

Articles

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


Yaron Brook on ARI's Cultural Impact

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

Columbus Day without Guilt

 

The Meaning of Labor Day
A radio interview with Harry Binswanger on the Ben Merens Program on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR). Requires RealPlayerŽ.

 

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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"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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