ARI News

Winners of the Equal Is Unfair Graphic Contest

Last month, we asked you to show us your skills and create a graphic featuring one of your favorite quotes from Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook. We received some great submissions and are pleased to announce our favorites.
Government And Business

We the Living: Ayn Rand’s Anti-Egalitarian Novel

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s first novel, We the Living. In her foreword to the novel, Rand explains that although the book is set in 1920s Soviet Russia, We the Living is not a historical novel: it “is a story about Dictatorship, any dictatorship, anywhere, at any time” and its goal is to show what “the rule of brute force does to men and how it destroys the best.”
Government And Business

Don Watkins on In Deep with Michelle Ray

On April 14, 2016, Don Watkins was interviewed on FTR Radio’s In Deep with Michelle Ray. In this interview, Equal Is Unfair co-author Don Watkins talks about the anti-inequality narrative about the American dream, the benign nature of economic inequality in a free society, the war on upward mobility and the scapegoating of businessmen.
Government And Business

Read Now: “Economic Inequality Complaints Are Just A Cover For Anti-Rich Prejudice”

On April 14, 2016, The Federalist published an all-new op-ed by Don Watkins, in which he argues that the campaign against economic inequality is often motivated by a particularly vicious prejudice, namely “the demonization and dehumanization of the successful.” What makes this prejudice so inexcusable? How does it manifest itself?

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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