I was walking back to the office one day, here in Washington, D.C., when a young woman accosted me on a street corner. “Got a minute for the
Ayn Rand portrayed her philosophy in action in her novels We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged.
For most of man's existence on Earth, the universe has been anything but benevolent. Famines, floods, and earthquakes have destroyed whole
I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...
A person of "principle" is commonly thought to be one who cleaves to his moral ideals and shuns "expediency" and compromise. Objectivism....
Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts
Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter
I enjoy the teaching very much, particularly since Rockford is a small liberal arts college, which means that our class sizes tend to be...
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds ...
Reason is the faculty which… identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses. Reason integrates man's perceptions by means
Inspired by the vision of life in Ayn Rand’s novels, many people have adopted Objectivism as a way of life: a code of conduct and character
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
Most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order..
The Fountainhead, Rand's first commercial success, is the story of Howard Roark, the brilliant architect who insists on the right to pursue
Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand ’s magnum opus. It is the culmination of her quest to portray an ideal man, and the first full expression of ...
Nationalism is the doctrine that a unitary cultural and political entity, the nation, should be the organizing principle of society....
In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in
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
Both as a thinker and as an artist, Ayn Rand swam against the tide. As a philosopher, she was an uncompromising champion of reason....