In a wide-ranging discussion, the panelists answer questions arising from their previous presentations on free will and its implications in issues such as immigration, free speech, Objectivism and foreign policy. This Q&A was recorded at Ayn Rand Student Conference 2016.
In this keynote talk by Yaron Brook, executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and co-author of Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality, examines how the arguments of today’s critics of economic inequality rest on the denial of the individual’s power of choice.
Occasionally, in a blog post, we will highlight important parts of the Ayn Rand Institute’s Annual Report. For 2016, our focus is on the Institute’s Free Books to Teachers program from the perspective of Shoshana Milgram, associate professor of English at Virginia Tech and long-time supporter of the program.
Follow Elan Journo on Twitter @elanjourno and you have a chance to win one of fifteen copies of Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama and Beyond.
Over the weekend, The Undercurrent published an extensive interview with ARI’s Elan Journo on Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama and Beyond.
College used to be grounded in the inviolate principle that each of us should confront new ideas, speak our minds and learn. Has that time passed? This year alone we have seen a riot at U.C. Berkeley and violence at Middlebury College over controversial speakers. Instead of “express yourself,” a new view seems to be taking hold: “Suppress yourself — or I’ll do it for you.”
Today, March 23, BBC Witness broadcast an interview with Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand’s foremost student and today’s leading expert on Objectivism, on Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged.
Unlike other essay contests out there, ARI’s essay contest programs award cash prizes that you can spend any way you want, whether to pay for school or to fund your dream trip around the world. This year, ARI’s contest on Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged will award $20,000 to the first-place winner plus more than eighty cash prizes to the finalists.
Can you believe it? The Yaron Brook Show has been on the air for more than two years. During that time Yaron Brook and various ARI guest hosts have produced 90 episodes covering a variety of topics such as the value of studying Ayn Rand, the follies of mainstream economics, “Socialist” Sweden, the threat to free speech and the nature of free will.
