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Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum

by The Editors | June 18, 2015

In 1961 Ayn Rand was invited to speak at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, America’s oldest continuously operating free public lecture series. This marked the beginning of Rand’s relationship with the Forum.

Over the years, Rand gave several talks in which she applied her philosophy of Objectivism on a wide range of topics such as art, censorship, capitalism, antitrust, abortion, the moon landing, the military draft, egalitarianism, inflation, Ronald Reagan and the religious right.

Now you can now relive Rand’s twenty years at the Ford Hall Forum.

The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age (1961) | Download March 26, 1961

America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business (1961) | Download December 17, 1961

The Fascist New Frontier (1962) | Download December 16, 1962

Is Atlas Shrugging? (1964) | Download April 19, 1964

The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus (1965) | Download April 18, 1965

Our Cultural Value-Deprivation (1966) | Download April 10, 1966

The Wreckage of the Consensus (1967) | Download April 16, 1967

What Is Capitalism? (1967) | Download November 19, 1967

Of Living Death (1968) | Download December 08, 1968

Apollo and Dionysus (1969) | Download November 09, 1969

The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1970) November 1, 1970

The Moratorium on Brains (1971) | Download November 14, 1971

A Nation’s Unity (1972) | Download October 22, 1972

Censorship: Local and Express (1973) | Download October 21, 1973

Egalitarianism and Inflation (1974) | Download October 20, 1974

The Moral Factor (1976) | Download April 11, 1976

Global Balkanization (1977) | Download April 10, 1977

Cultural Update (1978) | Download April 16, 1978

Age of Mediocrity (1981) | Download April 26, 1981

About The Author

The Editors

The editors are Elan Journo, director of policy research; Steve Simpson, director of legal studies; and Carl Svanberg, editorial assistant.