ARI News

This Saturday on The Yaron Brook Show: Trump Won, What Next?

On November 12, 2016, Yaron Brook discusses the outcome of the election, which are the most important issues the country will face, and the potential for positive change. He also weighs in on what’s next for the United States and how to find hope in the days ahead. Yaron argues that it is now time to exercise our voice and make rational ideas viable in order to ensure the long-term success of our country.
Culture And Society

‪Why a Free Man Fights [Video]‬

“I’m often asked why someone with a penchant for philosophy and an academic life joins the Marine Corps. Why, some ask, does a scribe lower the pen to pick up the sword?” So begins this stirring and thought-provoking Independence Day address by Lt. Col. Scott McDonald, USMC, to attendees at Objectivist Summer Conference 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
ARI News

Freedom Summit Chicago 2016: The Highs and the Lows

In the days leading up to the historic 2016 election, six hundred conservatives, libertarians, Tea Party members and undecided voters gathered in Chicago at AM560’s Freedom Summit to discuss this year’s candidates and prepare for the road ahead. ARI was among the sponsors and participants.
Culture And Society

Yaron Brook on the Role of Ideas in History

In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Yaron Brook comments on the unusually intellectual response to his talks in Europe and illustrates how philosophy shapes history, particularly the positive impact of Aristotle’s ideas. Also, Brook discusses why he won’t debate Stefan Molyneux, the political and economical state of Greece, “race realism” and free will.
Government And Business

Money Under Laissez-Faire [Video]

This talk examines the development, operation and performance of monetary systems in the absence of government intervention. Topics covered include the spontaneous evolution of money, the rise of banks, bank self-regulation under competition and crisis management in the absence of a central bank.

Further Reading

Ayn Rand | 1957
For the New Intellectual

The Moral Meaning of Capitalism

An industrialist who works for nothing but his own profit guiltlessly proclaims his refusal to be sacrificed for the “public good.”
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Ayn Rand | 1961
The Virtue of Selfishness

The Objectivist Ethics

What is morality? Why does man need it? — and how the answers to these questions give rise to an ethics of rational self-interest.
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