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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Educational Programs and Senior Fellow
Ayn Rand Institute

klockitch@aynrand.org

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Specialties

Ayn Rand’s novels & ideas
Environmental issues
Evolution vs. creationism
Scientific & technological progress
Energy & industrialization
Objectivism
Science vs. religion
Science & industrialization
Culture & society
Government & business

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Keith Lockitch is the vice president of educational programs and a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He oversees all of the Institute’s educational programs, including its free books to teachers program, its essay contests on Rand’s novels, its campus clubs program, ARI Campus, the Objectivist Academic Center, ObjectivistConferences.com and others.

Dr. Lockitch is a senior instructor for ARI’s Objectivist Academic Center, where he has been teaching distance-learning courses on written and oral communication skills for more than ten years. He also teaches classes on Ayn Rand’s novels and ideas in a variety of settings, from high school and college classrooms to ARI’s internship program to ARI Campus.

As an Institute fellow, Dr. Lockitch writes, speaks and serves as a senior editor for ARI. He specializes in the application of Ayn Rand’s philosophy to scientific topics, in particular to environmental issues such as energy and climate. His writings have appeared in such publications as The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Orange County Register, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Canberra Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the science policy journal Energy and Environment. He is also a contributor to Why Businessmen Need Philosophy: The Capitalist’s Guide to the Ideas Behind Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.”

Dr. Lockitch received his PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and prior to joining ARI he conducted postdoctoral research in relativistic astrophysics.

Career Roles

Vice President

Educational Programs
Ayn Rand Institute
2016 – present

Instructor

Objectivist Academic Center
ARI Internship Program
ARI Campus
2003 – present

Fellow

Rand’s works and ideas; Environmental issues
Ayn Rand Institute
2003 – present

Director

Advanced Training
Ayn Rand Institute
2013 – 2015

Selected Work

Scholarly Articles

“Climate Vulnerability and the Indispensable Value of Industrial Capitalism” in Energy & Environment 2009

Book Chapters

“Energy Privation: The Environmentalist Campaign Against Energy” in Why Businessmen Need Philosophy: The Capitalist’s Guide to the Ideas Behind Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” April 05, 2011

Articles & Essays

“Darwin and the Discovery of Evolution” Spring 2008

Talks & Lectures

“The Real Goal of the Green Climate Crusade”

“Charles Darwin: More than ‘Just a Theorist’”

Events

“The Roots of Climate Alarmism” Panel presentation, 4th International Conference on Climate Change Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL, 2010

“Climate Vulnerability and Industrial Capitalism: Why There Is No Climate Crisis” Panel presentation, EUEC Energy and Environment Conference Phoenix, AZ, 2010

“A Critique of Climate Change Science and Policy” April 13, 2009