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Want to Gain Work Experience?

ARI is currently taking applications for its spring and summer internship program. This is an exciting opportunity to learn more about Ayn Rand’s ideas while building your resume and growing your professional network.
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Merry Christmas from the Ayn Rand Institute

In celebration of Christmas, Ayn Rand Archives curator Jeff Britting gathered some Christmas-related memorabilia and objects from the Archives for a special video. “Christmas was a holiday that Ayn Rand loved,” said Britting, “and these objects will give you a taste of what Christmas was like for Ayn Rand and her husband, Frank O’Connor.”
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Top 5 Blog Posts of 2016

Voices for Reason is a blog that covers a wide range of topics, including philosophy and its application to current events, programs of the Ayn Rand Institute and the ideas of Objectivism. Looking back on the year, here are 2016’s most-read blog posts (along with edited versions of the introductions that accompanied them at time of publication).
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Why the Future is Bright

The Institute’s focus remains unwavering. We, in partnership with our contributors, are striving to implement fundamental, philosophical change in the culture. In the wake of the elections, what the next four years holds is uncertain. But whatever occurs, it will not be as important as the four years after that — and the years beyond.
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Those who help support ARI monthly via debit/credit card or electronic funds transfer are among our most highly valued contributors. We call such contributors “Sustainers” because their continuing commitment helps ensure the continuance of our vital programs. Contributing in this way is convenient for them and helps to provide steady funding for our vital programs.
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Give an ARI Gift Sponsorship and Free Book This Holiday Season

Would you like to introduce the books and ideas of Ayn Rand to someone in your life? What better way than sponsoring a gift this holiday season to support the vital mission of the Ayn Rand Institute, while sending them a copy of The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged? Our survey data show that the number one way people learn about Ayn Rand is through a friend or family member.

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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