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Apply Early to the 2015 Summer Internship

Want to spend part of your summer learning more about Ayn Rand from some of the world’s leading experts on her books and ideas? If you are a college student or recent graduate, consider taking advantage of the January 19 early application deadline to apply to ARI’s summer internship.
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Yaron Brook in Europe

During the last few weeks, ARI’s executive director, Yaron Brook, has been touring Europe giving talks on a wide variety of topics. He has spoken in the U.K., Norway, Germany, Poland, Serbia and in the Netherlands on topics such as the morality of capitalism, the immorality of the welfare state, the virtue of selfishness, and economic inequality.
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Join Yaron Brook in Denver on November 13 for the Atlas Shrugged Revolution Dinner

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Atlas Shrugged Revolution dinner for the Rocky Mountain region. Join your fellow admirers of Ayn Rand for an event benefiting the programs of the Ayn Rand Institute. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, will be our speaker. We will also announce the winners of the high school essay contest for the region.
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Join us at The Undercurrent Student Conference

Students eager to join the intellectual battle for individual freedom are invited to The Undercurrent Student Conference taking place October 11 – 12 at American University in Washington, D.C.: More and more students are discovering the power of the idea of individual liberty and its potential to transform society. Among the more prominent forces inspiring people to embrace this idea is the fiction of Ayn Rand.
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The Road to a Free Society: ARI on Tour

Every day at ARI, we see evidence that America and the profoundly important values it represents are under attack. From America’s self-crippling foreign policy to the entitlement state that threatens to bankrupt us, the policies that our leaders follow threaten to destroy the qualities that made this country exceptional.

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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