American's New Action Hero: Ayn Rand

Rand's ideas have galvanized tens of thousands of disgruntled citizens. Even as the Democrats continue to show their cards as the party of socialism, millions of Americans are becoming more aware of Rand as a principled defender of what is quintessentially American—individualism, self-authorship, achievement, and freedom.

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Freedom, Reason, Individualism, Reason: Objectivism

In novels such as The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Rand dramatized her ideal individual, the producer who lives by his own effort and does not give or receive the undeserved, who honors achievement and rejects envy.

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Ayn Rand's Persecuted Minority

Atlas Shrugged is an extended cry against the oppression of creators, most particularly business leaders: the Atlases who bear this world on their shoulders.

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Atlas Shrugged course

Atlas Shrugged is a novel of ideas, a suspense narrative based on Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. Those ideas come across, scene by scene, in the film adaptation. In these short, engaging videos, philosopher David Kelley, a script consultant on the movie trilogy, plays excerpts from the films and discusses their philosophical meaning.

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The Capitalist Ideal: The Moral Vision of Atlas Shrugged

Explore the core values, found in Atlas Shrugged, of production, self-interest, and the justice of trade.

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The Prophetic Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand's epic novel is a book about her future: our present.
By Ed Hudgins

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Deeper Dive: Atlas Shrugged as a Philosophical Novel

This scene, in which Dagny Taggart confronts her brother James about the need to upgrade a rail line, illustrates the difference between her rationality and his second-hand thinking. Dagny is focused on facts as she deals with the reality of a train wreck; James is focused on the opinions of other people.

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