This Sunday is Valentine’s Day, a holiday on which we celebrate romantic love. But, what exactly is romantic love? According to Ayn Rand, “Love is a response to values. . . . One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person’s character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul — the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness.”
For the first time in five years, Harry Binswanger is confirmed to teach a course at the Objectivist summer conference. He will explore advanced topics in metaphysics and epistemology from an Objectivist perspective, drawing on material from his book How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation. Binswanger will address questions that deal with the nature of knowledge. What does it depend upon? And what are the means of acquiring it?
Today is Ayn Rand’s birthday. Although Rand is known for her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and works of nonfiction like The Virtue of Selfishness and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, the fact is that her views are still largely unknown (and often misunderstood).
This Saturday, January 23, Alex Epstein, CEO of the Center for Industrial Progress and the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, will join Don Watkins and together they will explain why Objectivism is a philosophy for success and happiness.
In September, ARI deployed its largest survey to date on topics related to Ayn Rand and Objectivism to learn the different paths people take in discovering and exploring Rand’s ideas. 4,421 total respondents participated in the survey, representing more than 10% of total recipients, 3,489 of which defined themselves as Objectivists.
ARI and STRIVE are co-hosting the Leven Foundation student conference on “The Morality of Value Creation and Trade” at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center on November 6-8 in Atlanta, GA.
You may have noticed that you can now listen to all of Ayn Rand’s Ford Hall Forum talks on our website. But you may not have noticed that we have now made (almost) all these talks available for download — free of charge.
On November 17, in London, U.K., the Adam Smith Institute will hold its fourth annual Ayn Rand Lecture. This time around Ken Moelis, founder and CEO of Moelis & Company, has been invited to give a talk titled “Check Your Premises: An Objectivist’s Approach to the Modern World.”
This May, two high school sophomores, Sarah Henry and Shelbey Michel, from Bethel High School in Spanaway, Washington, entered a National History Day competition in which they were to select a historical figure to feature as the subject of their research. It was a requirement of the competition that the person chosen embody leadership and have a strong legacy in the culture today. The students chose Ayn Rand. From there, they went to work learning everything they could about Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism — using resources from the Ayn Rand Archives at ARI — and then creating their exhibit for the competition.
Don’t miss an all new episode of The Yaron Brook Show this Monday, June 22. Yaron will talk about the myths and realities of Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand.
