Culture: Religion & Morality

Op-Eds

A Liberal Ayn Rand? [Huffington Post]
Friday, November 2, 2012
By: Onkar Ghate

Does America Need Ayn Rand or Jesus? [Fox News Opinion]
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
By: Onkar Ghate

Memo To Foes Of Health Reform: Repudiate The Morality Of Need
Monday, December 28, 2009
By: Yaron Brook & Don Watkins

Commercialism Only Adds to Joy of the Holidays
Friday, December 18, 2009
By: Onkar Ghate

Celebrate Thanksgiving the Ayn Rand way: Thank yourself
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
By: Debi Ghate

Religion & Morality Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

Church and State: A Marriage Not Made in Heaven
Saturday, November 1, 2008

Capitalism Without Guilt: The Moral Case for Freedom
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Religious Discrimination Laws vs. Free Speech
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Vatican Doesn't Deserve a Statue of Galileo
Monday, September 8, 2008

Expelled Gets an F
Friday, April 18, 2008

Religion & Morality Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

Terrorists are Motivated by their Religious Ideology
Thursday, July 19, 2007
By: David Holcberg

Islamists Are Motivated by Their Beliefs
Saturday, July 7, 2007
By: Rob Tarr

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is Ethical
Friday, June 22, 2007
By: Keith Lockitch

Reason Needs No Supplement
Friday, June 1, 2007
By: Keith Lockitch

Bush's Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is Anti-Life
Thursday, July 20, 2006
By: David Holcberg Alex Epstein

Religion & Morality 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

Atlas Shrugged and Its Relevance Today

Tom Bowden on WKRC Radio (MP3 hosted by WKRC)


Yaron Brook on ARI’s Cultural Impact

Reason vs. Faith

Part 1 of a Q-&-A excerpt series from the ARI Lecture Series
See the series on YouTube

Religion vs. Self-Esteem
By Edwin A. Locke (video lecture)

Religion and Morality
By Onkar Ghate (video lecture)

Passing Judgment: Ayn Rand's View of Justice
By Tara Smith (video lecture)

The Virtue of Selfishness: Why Achieving Your Happiness Is Your Highest Moral Purpose
By Peter Schwartz (video lecture)

Ayn Rand's Ideas—an Introduction
By Onkar Ghate (video lecture)

 

Debates

"Making a Virtue of Selfishness? A Debate about Ayn Rand's Ethics"

» MP3 download
Featuring Onkar Ghate and Michael Huemer. Hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder's THINK series.


"Do the Terminally Ill Have a Right to Die?"

The Ayn Rand Center participated in this debate hosted by Opposing Views, a Web site that sponsors online debates on questions regarding current news and events.

 

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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"A mystic code of morality demanding self-sacrifice cannot be promulgated or propagated without a supreme ruler that becomes the collector of the sacrificing. Traditionally, there have been two such collectors: either God or society. The collector had to be inaccessible to mankind at large, and his authority had to be revealed only through an elite of special intermediaries, variously called 'high priests,' 'commissars,' 'Gauleiters.'"

—Ayn Rand, "The Stimulus. . . Part II," The Ayn Rand Letter, vol. 1, no. 9

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