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ARI’s top philosopher explores the relationship between Ayn Rand’s philosophy and her novels
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Curated readings, short assignments, and regular Q&A sessions will help cultivate active, independent engagement with Rand’s key nonfiction works
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Learn how we inspired thoughtful students to explore Objectivism and consider an intellectual career
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Learn more about the short, focused courses on mathematical physics and the ideals of the American Founding
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Ayn Rand’s diagnosis of our culture’s hostility to values
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The two philosophers differing conceptions of human life made a difference to the content of their ethics and politics
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Concretizing a key premise in Ayn Rand’s case for why the use of force is evil, excerpted from Tara Smith’s book on the First Amendment.
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In a newly uncovered recording, Ayn Rand explains why Atlas Shrugged is not a prophecy.
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Plus, an exclusive invitation to an event with Yaron Brook
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Ayn Rand revealed the parallels between Atlas Shrugged and the cultural controversies of her day
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Those who could become the New Intellectuals are America's hidden assets
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ARU Press showcases in-depth New Ideal essays on crucial issues in new paperback editions.
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The myth of win-lose self-interest, dispelled.
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ARI Members can watch this OCON general session live from Boston online.
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Objectivism’s positive orientation towards one’s life is worth sharing with others.
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ARI faculty discuss psychology, free will, and the self.
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A look behind the scenes at how ARU develops new programs to reach more people.
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Anne Heller’s acclaimed biography of Rand is unworthy of its subject or your time.
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Join the effort to celebrate the work of a champion of Ayn Rand’s ideas by supporting passionate students who will continue his legacy.
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Using Objectivism to become happier.
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While claiming to be non-partisan and deeply researched, Jennifer Burns’s celebrated book is an anti-intellectual biography of an intellectual.
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A concise, upbeat introduction to Objectivism reaches a milestone.
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Rand sought a public forum to begin a discussion about the corrupt influence of communist ideology.
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ARI’s new educational products help you learn Objectivism from experts at your own pace.
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Rand’s readers can now purchase a paperback edition of her first periodical.
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Join us for a presentation of a previously unavailable interview with Ayn Rand.
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Tara Smith delves into the moral psychology of Ayn Rand’s ethics, offering fresh insight into rational egoism.
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The world is in an intellectual crisis. ARU will produce the intellectuals needed to save it.
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Insights from an inspiring entrepreneur.
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America needs the morality of Atlas Shrugged.
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ARI’s redesigned conferences offer intellectual and spiritual fuel.
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Here are fourteen of Leonard Peikoff’s best articles and talks, many never before anthologized.
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Why Act on Principle? is a collection of fourteen enduring philosophic essays written by the preeminent Ayn Rand scholar.
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ARI intellectuals brought much-needed moral arguments for individual freedom to hundreds in Buenos Aires and Santiago.
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Listen to Onkar Ghate’s talk on moral sanction in Ayn Rand’s philosophy.
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Rand answers questions from the public that are still relevant nearly six decades later.
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Legendary guitarist Duane Eddy (1938–2024) was an admirer of Ayn Rand.
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Read an excerpt from an upcoming book by one of the best Ayn Rand scholars.
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ARI Members are invited to our monthly Roundtable on May 18.
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Our student conference in Amsterdam was a showcase of intellectual passion, with talks and breakout sessions modeling the Ayn Rand University experience.
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Ayn Rand overcame tremendous challenges to publish her first bestseller, The Fountainhead.
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ARI Members are invited to our monthly Roundtable on April 27.
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According to Zack Snyder, Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead in response to her experience on a project titled “The Skyscraper.” But how did this project impact Rand’s life and career?
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Since the philosophic differences between Rand and Milei are fundamental, this promises to be an illuminating conversation.
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Join us for a Members-only listening party featuring Ayn Rand’s 1966 radio interview with Michael Jackson.
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Fifty years ago, Rand explained to young people why philosophy is essential in everyone’s life.
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What’s the psychology of ambitious creators and startup founders? How can one build that in one’s own life?
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Join experts on Objectivism for exciting talks and ARU-style seminars.
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Ayn Rand’s critics fail to interpret her objectively.
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ARI’s archives yield golden nuggets from Rand’s live Q&A.
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Watch the interview for a taste of a valuable perk of ARI membership.
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Objectivity isn’t just for the big questions.
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AynRandCon-Athens and OCON-Miami featured in-person exhibits of historic artifacts.
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The integration of thought and action in life and work is at the center of the Ayn Rand University’s new programs.
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Massimo Pigliucci’s essay on Ayn Rand displays a shocking lack of concern for truth and objectivity.
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ARU course teaches how to apply philosophy to getting the most out of one’s work and career.
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An essay by Ayn Rand explains the personal emotions art evokes.
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The Smithsonian Institution will host Onkar Ghate during an upcoming event about Ayn Rand.
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New Ideal will publish selected chapters from Robert Mayhew’s important collections.
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza and Aaron Smith discuss What’s the Use of Philosophy?, a recent book by leading philosopher Philip Kitcher, in which Kitcher calls out academic philosophy for its useless work and corrupt methods.
Among the topics covered:
- Why it is significant that an established professor of philosophy has written a damning critique of his own profession;
- Kitcher’s radical claim that philosophy has become disconnected from life, practical guidance, and useful methods, and his willingness to question whether the profession has any legitimate value;
- How Kitcher goes wrong by recommending a methodological turn towards pragmatism;
- Why the philosophy of science is noticeably working from better premises than other areas of academic philosophy;
- Why fundamental philosophic questions are crucially practical and must not be thrown out in favor of less ambitious, piecemeal investigation;
- Why, contrary to Kitcher’s pragmatist view, Objectivism says that the most abstract philosophic questions have the widest practical consequences.
The stories of successful achievers illustrate a dedication to the true and the good.
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The question of whether Objectivism is “closed” or “open” is a false dilemma encouraged by religious thinking.
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ziemowit Gowin and Tristan de Liège defend self-esteem against attacks and misrepresentations by presenting Ayn Rand’s distinctive view of self-esteem as a psychological and moral necessity for successful living.
Among the topics covered:
- Why we should care about how to think about self-esteem as a value;
- Rand’s view of self-esteem as portrayed in her fictional characters;
- Why self-esteem is not the result of the opinions of others or an automatic recognition of one’s inherent value;
- Why self-esteem is a necessary condition for happiness and success;
- Why self-esteem is necessary for success in work and creativity;
- Why self-esteem is necessary for success in one’s relationships;
- Rand’s view of the moral nature and necessity of self-esteem.
The Ayn Rand Archives showcases hundreds of original manuscript pages and their transcripts.
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo is joined by four of the Ayn Rand Institute’s fellows to preview talks they will be giving at our upcoming Objectivist Summer Conference 2023.
Among the topics covered:
- Sam Weaver previews his talk, “The Reading Wars Today,” which addresses the destructive opposition to teaching children to read using phonics, and explains why Ayn Rand described phonics as the ‘conceptual’ method of learning to read;
- Dan Schwartz previews his talk, “The Galileo Affair,” which will fight back against a recent trend in academia that blames Galileo for his famous clash with the Church;
- Nikos Sotirakopoulos previews his talk, “The Left’s Long War on Israel,” which will explain the Left’s longstanding opposition to Israel, and why this opposition follows from their collectivistic, anti-achievement ideology;
- Agustina Vergara Cid previews her talk, “The Immorality of the U.S.
Objectivity affects how you treat your friends, do your work, set your goals. What is objectivity, and how do you practice it?
Learn more about Ayn Rand’s first television appearance at an upcoming watch-and-listen party.
The 80th anniversary restoration of Ayn Rand’s We the Living will introduce a new generation of viewers to the Italian film adaptation.
Shoshana Milgram offers a behind-the-scenes look at The Fountainhead movie that might have been.
Learn about ARI’s biggest educational initiative, its success so far, and newly announced courses by Dr. Harry Binswanger.
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Ziemowit Gowin, Harry Binswanger, Shoshana Milgram, and Don Watkins discuss new course offerings at the Ayn Rand University (ARU).
Among the topics covered:
- The goals of the Ayn Rand University and how students can benefit from it;
- Shoshana Milgram’s course Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: Investigating the Mind of a Murderer;
- How ARU courses facilitate in-depth study of Objectivism through feedback and interaction;
- Harry Binswanger’s new courses on Objectivist Logic and Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology;
- The best ARU courses for those new to Objectivism;
- How ARU helps to train new intellectuals;
- How ARU coaches help students to personalize the program and apply it to their lives;
- New courses on Philosophy, Work, and Business and Persuasion Mastery;
- Wrap up: ARU logistics, testimonials, and application information.
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Mike Mazza respond to several common and plausible philosophic objections to Objectivism that were sent in by viewers.
Among the topics covered:
- Why it is valuable to explore objections to any philosophy, especially one’s own;
- Why Objectivism does not fall foul of a supposed is/ought gap in its argument for self-interest;
- What Ayn Rand says we can learn about the foundations of morality by comparing human beings to other organisms;
- How to deal with scientific claims that seem to conflict with philosophic ideas;
- Why modern brain science cannot disprove the existence of free will;
- The merits and shortcomings of raising questions about the compatibility of free will with modern brain science;
- Why Objectivism takes free will to be a self-evident primary that cannot be disproven by science;
- Why accepting the importance of science and rationality entails implicitly assuming free will;
- Why the choice to live, which sits at the foundation of the Objectivist ethics, is not a groundless choice and does not make the Objectivist ethics arbitrary or subjective;
- How objections to the choice to live arise;
- Why the choice to live is grounded in reality and thus not arbitrary;
- Why the method of raising counterexamples, commonly used in analytic philosophy, often neglects the need to keep firmly in mind the facts one is trying to conceptualize;
- The sort of counterexamples to Rand’s ethical argument raised by Michael Huemer;
- Why counterexamples of this kind often fail to grapple with the real meaning of the generalizations they’re meant to refute.
We respect others’ rights on an interpersonal level, but on “public” issues like health care, education and poverty, that respect for individuals’ rights vanishes. Why?
Register now to join young people from around the world to explore the ideas in Rand’s writings.
In 1968, a Russian-language interview with Ayn Rand was broadcast inside the dictatorship she had escaped decades earlier.
How sculpture expresses metaphysical abstractions, and how the dominant philosophy of an era is reflected in its sculpture.
Our experts take your questions on arguments for God, whether morality depends on religion, and other issues related to religion.
A new Ayn Rand University course explores the crucial role of a legal system for civilization.
Can Thomas Aquinas reconcile reason and religion? A new ARU course explores this question in depth.
Selected essays from New Ideal, based on research in the Ayn Rand Archives, highlight interesting facets of Rand’s life and work.
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer interviews professor and clinical psychologist Gena Gorlin about the value of gratitude, possible misconceptions about it, and how it’s being understood and implemented in psychology and psychotherapy.
Among the topics covered:
- Gratitude and its role in psychological exercises within the gratitude movement;
- Whether these kinds of exercises are useful and valuable;
- How the psychological benefits of gratitude exercises depend on a purposeful orientation towards values;
- Why it’s important to distinguish the good that comes from others from natural goods, such as a sunny day;
- Why the difference between gratitude, humility and pride in one’s own achievements is important;
- Whether there’s a point at which it’s proper to stop expressing gratitude and start feeling angry about what’s bad or unjust in life;
- The importance of acknowledging and learning from the achievements of others—including business entrepreneurs, which we benefit from;
- How some entrepreneurs internalize the culture’s unjust attitude towards them and fail to appreciate what’s good in them;
- Why we need to understand that gratitude is ultimately selfish.
Red Pawn is an intense love story, but also a portrayal of what a dictatorship does to the pursuit of one’s values. Rand’s admirers who haven’t read it are in for a treat!
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Aaron Smith and Mike Mazza discuss World Philosophy Day to explore what is the nature and value of philosophy. They address how philosophy is commonly perceived (especially within academia) as a useless field and how Ayn Rand’s distinctive conception offers a deeper and more practical perspective that matters for life.
The push for “equity” as a moral and political ideal is fundamentally opposed to American values.
Rare material by and about Ayn Rand is highlighted in this issue of ARI’s quarterly publication.
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza and Sam Weaver address questions about free will submitted by the podcast’s audience.
Among the topics covered:
- Ayn Rand’s view of free will as the choice “to think or not”;
- The importance of this view for the rest of Objectivist philosophy.
Ayn Rand welcomed a newspaper syndicate’s offer to popularize her best-selling novel in illustrated form.
Pathbreaking article explains what Austrian economics gets right and what it gets wrong.
Ayn Rand identifies deep philosophical issues related to a world championship chess match.
Young Latin American audiences will learn about a new philosophical view on what it means to build a better life.
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Aaron Smith, Dan Schwartz, and Tristan de Liège discuss Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience, a recent book by Nancy Sherman that promotes the philosophy of Stoicism while arguing that a healthy modern Stoicism requires important changes.
“What was Ayn Rand like as a person?” Two of her dearest friends answer with their memories.
Rare material by and about Ayn Rand is highlighted in this issue of ARI’s quarterly publication.
“What was Ayn Rand like as a person?” Two of her dearest friends answer with their memories.