Senior Fellow and Vice President, Content and Advanced Training
Ayn Rand Institute
Elan Journo specializes in the application of Rand’s philosophy to cultural-political issues, with a focus on American foreign policy. He also leads ARI’s content ventures, including the Institute’s online journal and podcast, New Ideal, and books; the Ayn Rand Archives; and the advanced training of new intellectuals.
His books include What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and (with Onkar Ghate) Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11. His articles have appeared in a wide range of publications, from Foreign Policy and Skeptic Magazine to The Hill and the Los Angeles Times. He has been interviewed on numerous television and radio programs, and he often lectures at conferences and universities.
Mr. Journo holds a BA in philosophy from King’s College, London, and an MA in diplomacy from SOAS, University of London.
Ayn Rand Institute,
2020 – present
New Ideal, the journal of the Ayn Rand Institute
2018 – present
Objectivist Academic Center (ARU)
2005 – present
Why Nationalism Is Hostile to America (with Yaron Brook), 2025
The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom (contributor), 2024
Illuminating Ayn Rand: Essays from New Ideal, Journal of the Ayn Rand Institute November 2022
Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11 September 2021
What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict June 2018
A New Textbook of Americanism: The Politics of Ayn Rand (contributor) 2017
Defending Free Speech (contributor), 2016
Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism September 2009
“Goddess of the Marketplace: Ayn Rand and the American Right” Is Worse than Incompetent, September 2024
What Was Ayn Rand’s View of ‘Conservatism’? June 30, 2021
“When Tribal Journalists Try to ‘Cancel’ Ayn Rand,” June 10, 2020
“Why Ayn Rand Was Right to Testify Against Hollywood Communism,” July 24, 2019
“The Virulent Pull of Tribalism,” May 13, 2019
Making Sense of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
The “Virtue of Selfishness”? Ayn Rand’s Ethics of Egoism in Your Own Life
After Israel’s ‘Pearl Harbor’ Moment, Nothing Less than Victory, October 2023
More University Donors Should “Go Galt,” October 2023
“The Immoral Campaign to ‘Abolish Billionaires,’” January 8, 2020
“The Berlin Wall and the Evil of Socialism,” November 11, 2019
“Bernie Sanders, like Trump, Is Hostile to a Free Press,” September 23, 2019
“The Betrayal of Charlie Hebdo,” January 14, 2019
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