280 Articles tagged with: Ayn Rand

• "Why I Named My Baby Dagny."

  An interview with Nena Whitfield of Ladies for Liberty Alliance … Read Article

• The 25th Anniversary of The Atlas Society

  2015 marks 25 years since David Kelley founded the Institute for Objectivist Studies (now, The Atlas Society) with a call for a new, more open Objectivist movement founded on independent thought and objectivity.

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• 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

• "Selling" Ayn Rand's Ideas

  Atlas Summit 2015 -- In the decade and a half since the publication of What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand, Louis Torres and Michelle Kamhi have been actively engaged in promoting the basic principles of Ayn Rand’s theory of art in the … Read Article

• David Kelley to speak at NYC Junto

  David Kelley on "Ayn Rand: The new wave of myths and misrepresentations about her."

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• Myths About Ayn Rand's Ideas

  Whether you decide to embrace Ayn Rand's ideas or reject them, or simply want to be able to participate in an informed way in conversations about Rand's ideas, this slim volume will help you understand her revolutionary philosophy and identify the… Read Article

• Welcome!

  Welcome!

  My name is Jennifer Anju Grossman, and I’m the CEO at The Atlas Society. You can connect with me on Twitter at @JenAnjuGrossman 

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• For Further Reading

  Read more about Ayn Rand's LifeRand’s life was marked by drama. She witnessed the first shots of the Russian Revolution from her balcony when she was only 12 years old. Almost overnight, her family was reduced to crushing poverty. Discovering t… Read Article

• Toward An Objectivist Feminism

  Objectivism has the potential for a dynamic relationship with feminism, which can ground, challenge, and ultimately sharpen each school’s arguments toward the ultimate ends of both freedom and flourishing for women (and all human beings). A ne… Read Article

• Leftist Delusions, Honduras and Alleged Freedom Failures

   A recent piece by Mike LaSusa entitled “ The Nightmare Libertarian Project to Turn This Central American Country Into Ayn Rand's Paradise ,” published on Alternet and reposted on Salon , is a disjointed collection of out-of-context semi-fa… Read Article

• Nathaniel Branden Remembered

  I first met Nathaniel Branden, who passed away this morning, in fall 1983. I had successfully passed my Ph.D. oral defense of dissertation that morning, so except for shuffling paperwork, I was now “Doctor Hudgins.” … Read Article

• Nathaniel Branden, RIP

  We note with sadness the death today of Nathaniel Branden.

  At our organization’s 1996 Summer Seminar, in Boulder, Colorado, Branden made the first of many appearances at our events. … Read Article

• Ayn Rand

  Ayn Rand was a woman of truly remarkable achievement. She was a phenomenally successful novelist whose books have sold millions of copies and profoundly affected countless lives. Through her fiction and her later essays and articles, she founde… Read Article

• The Objectivist Movement Today

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- The Objectivist movement has helped many people apply Objectivist principles to their personal lives; it has contributed to the broad-based political movement for liberty; and it has sponsored research on the philosophy of O… 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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• Ayn Rand, the Movies, and the Idea of America

  The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) has recently released a little-known monograph by Ayn Rand called "Textbook of Americanism." … Read Article

• 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

• Ayn Rand on "Why do some people reject capitalism?"

  1967: Ayn Rand is interviewed on WKCR, a Columbia University student-run radio station. She is asked about the reason for hostility and the "deep antagonism" that some critics of capitalism express toward it. This reaction is rooted in a "fear… Read Article