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#OCON2017 Meet Steve Simpson

POST by The Editors | View All Posts   May 08, 2017
Steve Simpson, constitutional lawyer and director of Legal Studies at the Ayn Rand Institute, will be speaking at Objectivist Summer Conference 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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ARI Partners with Elite University to Foster Change in Bogota

POST by The Editors | View All Posts   May 04, 2017
Yaron Brook was back in Colombia at Elite University for his third visit in three years and this tour did not disappoint. ARI has found a dedicated partner in Elite, a university focused on engineering and business. Brook describes Dr. Carlos Felipe Escobar, the school’s president, as a “big fan of Ayn Rand who, in his own words, ‘would love to create a university John Galt would be proud to attend.’” Brook looks forward to these visits and loves to engage with these intellectually oriented students about the crucial principles of freedom.
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Tara Smith Discusses Her New Article on Religious Exemptions

POST by The Editors | View All Posts   May 04, 2017
A new article by Tara Smith, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism, highlights her recent interest in the subject of religious exemptions in the law. “Religious Liberty or Religious License? Legal Schizophrenia and the Case against Exemptions,” published in the Journal of Law & Politics, “seeks to demonstrate that religious exemptions are unjustified in theory and corrosive, in practice,” according to the article’s abstract.
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God and Morality Are Incompatible

POST by The Editors | View All Posts   May 02, 2017
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Brook discusses Dennis Prager’s claim that if there’s no God, murder isn’t wrong. Also, he explains why a God-based morality is not only inessential to our civilization, but also detrimental.
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Farewell to ARI Fellow Don Watkins

POST by Onkar Ghate | View All Posts   May 01, 2017

Next week, we bid a fond farewell to our colleague Don Watkins, a fellow at ARI, who’s moving on to a new chapter in his career. I’ve worked with Don for more than eleven years in my role as ARI’s senior editor and trainer. I’ve been pleased to observe, and actively foster, his growth as […]

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