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.
The other day, Townhall.com published an article by a friend of ARI, namely Adam Mossoff, professor of law at George Mason University and Director of Academic Programs and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, in which he takes on policy analyst Mytheos Holt’s argument that patents are not property rights.
This year it’s not only Atlas Shrugged’s 60th anniversary; it’s also the 55th anniversary of The Objectivist Newsletter, Ayn Rand’s first periodical. With essays on topics such as the evil of antitrust laws, the totalitarian nature of nonobjective laws, the application of the Objectivist ethics, the history and morality of capitalism, and other, Rand’s newsletter provided a penetrating philosophical dissection of the events and ideas dominating our culture.
The Objectivist Academic Center is a distance-learning program designed for ambitious individuals pursuing careers in business, academia and public policy. This year, the OAC has really put the “distance” in distance learning.
Why do so many college students believe that free speech amounts to “sticks and stones”? And that it’s morally justified to use force to silence people?
Elan Journo, the Ayn Rand Institute’s director of Policy Research and foreign policy expert, recently gave a wide-ranging video interview to the student-run YouTube channel Objectivist Discussions.
Work is well underway on a new graphic novel based on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, to be published in the next couple of years by New American Library (NAL), a division of Penguin Random House with the approval of Leonard Peikoff. The designer and artist is Bosch Fawstin with a script by him and Amy Peikoff, adapted from the novel. The graphic novel will most likely be published in three volumes over a period of a few months after it is completed.
