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This Saturday on The Yaron Brook Show: Intellectual Property Rights and You with Adam Mossoff

Confused about the need for and justification for intellectual property rights? In this episode, Yaron Brook and Adam Mossoff, Director of Academic Programs and a Senior Scholar at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, address intellectual property rights, what it means to the individual and government’s role as protector.
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Student from Ireland Wins $10,000 in ARI’s The Fountainhead Essay Contest

Matthew Long was perusing the aisles of his local library when he came across a copy of a book by Ayn Rand. He glanced at the back cover and a mention of ARI’s essay contest caught his attention. The idea of writing an essay about a novel seemed interesting to him, so he decided to give it a try. He never imagined that only a few months later his essay would win the first-place prize and with it $10,000 in cash.
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Join Yaron Brook in Colorado: Hungry Minds Speakers series and the 8th Annual Freedom Conference & Festival

Yaron Brook has been invited to be the next speaker in the Hungry Minds Speaker series.The talk takes place on August 25 at Chinook Tavern in Greenwood Village, Colorado. On August 26 and 27, he will also give two talks at the Steamboat Institute’s 8th Annual Freedom Conference and Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
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Andrew Bernstein at El Foro Objetivista in Guatemala

On August 8 and 9, 2016, Andrew Bernstein, Objectivist philosopher and author of books such as The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire, will deliver no less than three lectures at El Foro Objetivista (The Objectivist Forum) in Guatemala.
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Tara Smith in the UK

This week, Tara Smith, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System, will give two public talks in the UK.

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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