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Honoring Ayn Rand: Rand's Radical Methodology

December 2004 -- There is much to celebrate on the occasion of the Ayn Rand centenary. Books on Rand and Rand citations in the scholarly

Aug 20, 2010
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Chris Matthew Sciabarra
2 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: An Extraordinary Visionary

December 2004 -- Ayn Rand was no academic, and people sometimes point to that fact to explain the lack of scholarly consideration given

Aug 20, 2010
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Tibor R. Machan
4 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: The Individual as Moral End-in-Himself

December 2004 -- Ayn Rand was an advocate of both egoism and rights. As an advocate of egoism, she held that the individual ought not to

Aug 20, 2010
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Eric Mack
3 Mins
Ayn Rand's Anthem: An Appreciation

Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state. The author of Anthem made

Jul 7, 2010
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Stephen Cox
10 Mins
The Fountainhead Sings

It has long been said that when twentieth-century "serious" music adopted noisy traffic horns or long periods of silence as stand-ins for ..

Jul 7, 2010
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Chris Matthew Sciabarra
5 Mins
Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand

Never religious, Ayn Rand was as potently spiritual as any writer; she knew how to speak in a thoroughly earthly way to those aspirations...

Jul 7, 2010
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Peter Reidy
10 Mins
Understanding the Major Characters of The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead powerfully and credibly depicts how important moral integrity is in maintaining one’s personal independenc

Jul 7, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
3 Mins
Howard Roark

"You want to stand alone against the whole world?" That's certainly how it seems for Howard Roark as he's expelled from...

Jun 30, 2010
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Chris Matthew Sciabarra
5 Mins
Synopsis of the Plot of Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged is structured in three major parts, each of which consists of ten chapters. The parts and chapters are named, and the....

Jun 30, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
The Literary Achievement of The Fountainhead

Six decades after its publication, The Fountainhead is still very much alive. New readers by the hundreds find it every day

Jun 30, 2010
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Stephen Cox
10 mins
The Persuasion of Nixon

April 16, 1967. A wet, icy wind blew off the Charles River and howled down the wide channel of Massachusetts Avenue, gusting into narrow ...

Jun 30, 2010
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10 Mins
Rand's Persecuted Minority

The Atlases who bear this world on their shoulders. Uniquely, Rand’s work portrays the exploited entrepreneurs of the mixed economy as the..

Jun 29, 2010
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10 Mins
Outline of John Galt's Speech

In Atlas Shrugged , the hero, John Galt, makes a radio speech to the nation revealing the strike of the producers and explaining its......

Jun 29, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
The Capitalist Ideal: The Moral Vision of "Atlas Shrugged"

In 1917, Bolsheviks under Lenin seized control of Russia in the famous October revolution, ending a short-lived experiment with .....

Jun 26, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
Chapter 5 "Truth and Toleration in Objectivism"

The following is Chapter 5 from the book The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism, by David Kelley.

Jun 24, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
Completing the American Revolution

When forced to assume [self-government], we were novices in its science. Its principles and forms had entered little into our....

Jun 23, 2010
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David N. Mayer
10 Mins
The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead, Rand's first commercial success, is the story of Howard Roark, the brilliant architect who insists on the right to pursue

Jun 11, 2010
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2 Mins
Epistemology and Politics: Ayn Rand's Cultural Commentary

Ayn Rand is best known for her novels, which continue to sell hundreds of thousands of copies each year, and for her philosophical essays on

Jun 11, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
7 Mins
Mises and Rand

Ayn Rand and Mises knew each other, and they were on good personal terms, though never close friends. There is reason to think Rand read....

Apr 14, 2010
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William Thomas
2 Mins
Scorsese's Aviator Reflects Randian Lessons

In The Aviator, a biopic about Howard Hughes (1905-1976) starring Leonardo DiCaprio with script by John Logan, director Martin Scorsese

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins

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