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Watch Now: Ayn Rand Experts Discuss Ivo Van Hove Staging of The Fountainhead

POST by The Editors | View All Posts December 05, 2017

Following the recent Ivo Van Hove international production of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Gilman Opera House, a panel discussion appeared on Facebook Live. The panelists were Gregory Salmieri, philosophy fellow at the Anthem Foundation; Shoshana Milgram, associate professor of English at Virginia Tech; and Ann Ciccolella, artistic director at Austin Shakespeare.

Culture And Society

“Ayn Rand on Humor” by Robert Mayhew

POST by The Editors | View All Posts July 27, 2017

In this short course, philosopher Robert Mayhew presents Ayn Rand’s conception of humor and shows its connection to basic issues in Objectivism such as metaphysical value-judgments, the metaphysical versus the man-made, and the benevolent universe premise.

New book by Leonard Peikoff, edited by Marlene Trollope

POST by The Editors | View All Posts July 24, 2017

A new book based on a series of lectures by Leonard Peikoff and edited by Marlene Trollope is now available for purchase.

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.”

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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