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Birds of Prey: Freedom of the Will and the Value of Genealogy

I will be addressing two issues in this review essay: freedom of the will and the value of genealogy...

Mar 7, 2011
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Diana Hsieh
6 Mins
Response by Chris Sciabarra

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ." ...

Mar 5, 2011
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Chris Matthew Sciabarra
4 Mins
Nietzsche and Ayn Rand

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ."....

Mar 5, 2011
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
7 Mins
On Human Nature and Values

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ." Essays and Comments on

Mar 4, 2011
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4 Mins
Atlas Shrugged Movie: Interview with John Aglialoro

Let me give you some background first. I had purchased a fifteen-year lease to make a movie of the book in August 1992 from Leonard Peikoff

Feb 15, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
Liberalism vs. Objectivism

Ayn Rand criticized both the “liberal” Left and the “conservative” Right poles of American politics. She identified both major political

Jan 26, 2011
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5 Mins
Freedom of Speech

Objectivists absolutely hold that we have a right to freedom of speech. It is an aspect of our broader right to liberty: the right to take..

Jan 25, 2011
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William Thomas
2 Mins
Determinism in The Fountainhead?

Ayn Rand wrote out the passages that Leonard Peikoff cites in The Fountainhead , Centennial Edition (728–732) in her journals from late...

Jan 25, 2011
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5 Mins
Atlas Shrugged as Prophecy

October 2007 -- In the newsrooms of New York, in the corridors of Congress, and in the parlors of political parties, prognostication is the

Jan 8, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Interview with Anne Conover Heller

William Thomas interviews Anne Conover Heller on the writing of her acclaimed biography Ayn Rand and the World She Made.

Dec 5, 2010
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10 Mins
Atlas Shrugged: The Making of a Movie

was an evening to remember. On December 7, 2010, at the historic Hudson Theatre in New York City, The Atlas Society sponsored a celebration

Oct 13, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Thomas Paine's Influence on Ayn Rand

To my knowledge, Ayn Rand came somewhat independently to her own views. She may have imbibed Paine second-hand through such Old-Right

Sep 30, 2010
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2 Mins
Scholarship and Ayn Rand's Writing

It is my view that scholarly writing has several distinctive characteristics: It shows careful reading of primary sources and a thorough

Sep 30, 2010
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2 Mins
Rand and Anna Karenina

Ayn Rand indeed regarded Anna Karenina as her least favorite novel. She presented her negative analysis of Anna Karenina in the article...

Sep 29, 2010
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Michelle Fram-Cohen
2 Mins
Philosophy Scholarship and Rand

Ayn Rand is not a revered figure in academic philosophy at this time. But there is a growing body of scholarship on her ideas by academic

Sep 28, 2010
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William Thomas
2 Mins
Book Review: "Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged"

BOOK REVIEW: Edward W. Younkins, Editor, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot

Sep 8, 2010
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William Thomas
6 Mins
Rand Central Station

For quite a number of years, I’ve been conducting guided walking tours of New York City. These include “Revolutionary Manhattan,” a tour of

Sep 7, 2010
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Fred Cookinham
4 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: My Freedom March

Consider the following situation. It is 1963. You are a twenty-one-year-old graduate of Tuskegee University, rooming in Washington, D.C....

Aug 20, 2010
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Anne Wortham
4 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: Rand as Dissident

A few years ago, a colleague whose intelligence I respect invited me to attend a lecture he was going to give. "This will not be one of.....

Aug 20, 2010
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Stephen Cox
3 Mins
Honoring Ayn Rand: Contribution to Aristotle's Concept

December 2004 -- Ayn Rand acknowledged Aristotle as the only philosopher to whom she was indebted, the father of logic who defined "the bas

Aug 20, 2010
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Michelle Fram-Cohen
2 Mins

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