I changed careers and philosophies after reading Atlas Shrugged. I read it when I was 28 years old. At that time I was asking questions such
After thousands of years of formal philosophizing and probably a hundred thousand of contemplation around prehistoric camp fires, is there..
Philosopher Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, was intimately involved in the thinking and writing that went into The Logic
Induction is the formation of general knowledge from particular evidence. It is induction if you burn your hand once and thereafter always..
Spring 2011 -- In The Logical Leap, David Harriman draws a fundamental contrast between two historically crucial scientific theories: Newton
Spring 2011 -- Steve Walton may well owe his big break to a Saudi prince. In 1996, Walton, a former naval officer, took a position on the
This program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
This audio program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
Ayn Rand rejected the dichotomy between mind and body and correlate dichotomies such as theory vs. practice, the moral vs. the practical, reason vs. emotion, and love versus lust.
Spring 2011 -- THE WATER began swallowing Susan Lemaster’s home at 2 a.m. July 22. She was sleeping when her 27-year-old daughter, trembling
On the 16th of October, 2010, I tramped into London along with two thousand other minds to attend The Amazing Meeting, the major conference
The producers in Atlas Shrugged represent the culmination of Rand's artistic goal to portray the human ideal; and their conflict with looters and parasites is the fullest statement of what she saw as an eternal conflict in human life.
This analogy with the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe is intended to suggest that a similar movement within Islam would....
What gives her fiction compelling power? The Literary Art of Ayn Rand, a book published by The Atlas Society, brings together seven expert
Atlas Shrugged is structured in three major parts, each of which consists of ten chapters. The parts and chapters are named, and the titles
Americans typically measure their freedom by looking backward or forward—backward to the early republic or forward to their ideal republic.
In her writings on art, Ayn Rand put great emphasis on the value of structural unity in an artwork. Holding that an important purpose of ar
December 2004 -- Dagny Taggart shoots guns and flies airplanes. These rational survival skills exhilarate all the heroes in Ayn Rand 's....
Norway recently lost its wealthiest citizen. No, he didn't die. Rather, he left or, to be more accurate, was driven out of the country for..
