204 Articles tagged with: Atlas Shrugged

• The Objectivist Sabbath

  As with most people, my working schedule has been blurred. With colleagues in different time zones, 24/7 emails and texts, I can’t remember the last time I had an evening or weekend to myself—the traditional periods of respite.But the… Read Article

• Why Latinos Should Read Ayn Rand

  He is an unlikely Objectivist — yet for this Mexican American, Ayn Rand was a lifesaver. Her fiction and philosophy of self-reliance, self-actualization, achievement and reason became a guiding light that he now volunteers his time to s… Read Article

• Two Proposals to Stop the Government Looting

  Denouncing the government for taxing us into servitude is necessary and right, but it doesn’t actually stop government looting. So how do we rouse a complacent public to rise up and stop the despoilers?

  1: Make Election Season Tax Season <… Read Article

• On Tax Day, What if Atlas Shrugged?

  On Tax Day in the United States, productive individuals are punished for being productive, even as their tormentors demand that they produce even more for those tormentors to take.

  And during this election year, Democrat candidates especia… Read Article

• Ayn Rand resuscitates dying Romanticism

  Ayn Rand’s most original achievement was her resuscitation of a Romantic movement that had died of its philosophical contradictions. Without this achievement, as she implies in discussing the role of art in projecting a moral ideal (in The Roman… Read Article

• A Revolutionary Philosophy

    The Revolutionary Philosophy of Atlas Shrugged

  Ayn Rand developed a new kind of hero and a radically new world view in Atlas Shrugged. Step into this world.Read More

  The Fourth Revolution

  Capitalism was the result of three revo… Read Article

• Ideas and Themes

  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 Ra… Read Article

• John Galt Earns his Freedom: Patriotism as an Objectivist Virtue

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- “On this material, profit-chasing earth,” John Galt tells us, man must create the values he needs if he seeks to live. That takes virtue. And in order to do it, man needs rights. A rights-upholding political order is thu… Read Article

• The Path to John Galt

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- In Atlas Shrugged John Galt is a mysterious presence that seems to be destroying the world. But, in fact, Galt is actually allowing the destroyers to destroy themselves.

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• Why John Galt is an inventor

  ATLAS SUMMIT 2014 -- Why did John Galt say: “I was an inventor. I was one of a profession that came last in human history and will be first to vanish on the way back to the sub-human?” Today, there is an all-out attack on inventors.

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• The Sanction of the Victim

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- The central plot device in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is the strike of the producers led by John Galt. And the essential purpose of the strike is to withdraw the sanction of the victim. What exactly does that sanction inv… Read Article

• McConnell Should Unleash Our Inner John Galt

  GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says that Republicans “have often lost sight of the fact that our average voter is not John Galt.” The Kentucky Senator, fresh from a primary victory over a Tea Party-backed candidate, was referring… Read Article

• Republican Party Values, Path to John Galt at Atlas Summit!

  May 12, 2014 – Want to pioneer political paths to liberty and personal paths to happiness? Check out my Atlas Summit talks! 

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• Bitcoin and the Ayn Rand Imagination

  The Atlas Shrugged movie is now accepting Bitcoin to join their web forum, called Galt’s Gulch Online .

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• Who is John Galt?

  Atlas Shrugged course | Atlas University Topic: Justice | Featuring clips from Atlas Shrugged Part  2

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• The Sanction of the Victim | Atlas Shrugged

  "Then I saw what was wrong with the world, I saw what destroyed men and nations, and where the battle for life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality—and that my sanction was its only power.” From Galt’s speech, At… Read Article

• Atlas Shrugged course

  Ayn Rand’s 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 scri… Read Article

• Will Atlas Shrug in France?

  France recently passed a law penalize firms that close plants. As Agence France-Presse reported, The French parliament on Monday definitively passed a law slapping tough penalties on firms who shut down without looking for a buyer in three mont… Read Article

• Banquet Events: Who is John Galt? in Film and Real Life

   The theme of the 2014 Atlas Summit is "Who is John Galt?"

  With the movie Atlas Shrugged Part III due for release in 2014, we are asking: Who is changing the world? Who are the inventors and creators? Who is really making a difference? … Read Article

• Obama's NSA Speech: Levison Warned Us

  Edward Snowden will respond to President Obama’s statements on the NSA next week, Julian Assange says , but the Business Rights Center is releasing an 84-minute interview with his email provider, Ladar Levison —who closed Lavabit rather than… Read Article