In this final installation of the Ayn Rand Institute’s podcast series Inside “A Companion to Ayn Rand,” Don Watkins interviews Harry Binswanger, a member of ARI’s board of directors and author of How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation, on the chapter he contributed, “The Objectivist Esthetics: Art and the Needs of a Conceptual Consciousness.”
In this installation of the Ayn Rand Institute’s podcast series Inside “A Companion to Ayn Rand,” Don Watkins interviews Jason G. Rheins, assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, on the chapter he authored, “Objectivist Metaphysics: The Primacy of Existence.”
In the latest installation of the Ayn Rand Institute’s new podcast series on A Companion to Ayn Rand, Don Watkins interviews Adam Mossoff, professor of law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, on the chapter he co-authored with Fred D. Miller, emeritus professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, “Political Theory: A Radical for Capitalism.”
In the latest installation of the Ayn Rand Institute’s new podcast series on A Companion to Ayn Rand, Don Watkins interviews Darryl Wright, professor of philosophy at Harvey Mudd College, on the chapter he authored “ ‘A Human Society’: Rand’s Social Philosophy.”
In remarks delivered at the launch of Ayn Rand Institute Europe, Lars Seier Christensen discusses Europe’s need for Rand's ideas, as well as the various obstacles to the spread of her influence there.
Earlier this year, Wiley Blackwell added a new contribution to its prestigious Companions to Philosophy series, A Companion to Ayn Rand, edited by Gregory Salmieri and the late Allan Gotthelf.
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.
You’re invited to attend ARI’s eighth annual Atlas Shrugged Revolution dinner on September 29, 2016. Those registered for the event will enjoy a special theatrical staged reading of Ayn Rand’s first novel, We the Living, in commemoration of the novel’s 80th anniversary.
