Last week, the Cato Institute hosted a theatrical reading of selected scenes from Ayn Rand’s We the Living/The Unconquered. In the panel discussion that followed, ARI’s Onkar Ghate commented on several topics, including Ayn Rand’s development as a writer, the difference between teaching philosophy and dramatizing it in a novel, and the value of a plot that’s driven by conflicts between good people. Click here to watch the discussion.

Learn More:

• “Is Ayn Rand a Writer of Didactic Fiction?” by Onkar Ghate

• We the Living [Campus course] with Onkar Ghate

• The Unconquered: With Another, Earlier Adaptation of “We the Living” by Ayn Rand, edited by Robert Mayhew

• Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” edited by Robert Mayhew