The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

How foreign aid expands a mixed economy’s warfare to an international arena. Ayn Rand reads and extemporaneously comments on her article “The Pull Peddlers.”

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Ayn Rand explains why the men of ability flee collectivism.
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The Kennedy administration is often hailed as a brief shining moment in American history. Here, Ayn Rand incisively identifies the frightening similarities—in their programs and in their philosophy—between the Kennedy government and the fascist states of Europe.

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Ayn Rand reads her review of John Herman Randall’s book Aristotle, and offers additional comments on Aristotle’s greatness.

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Miss Rand reads three articles from her Los Angeles Times column.

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In this sweeping talk on the impact of philosophy throughout history, Ayn Rand explains why mysticism is altruism’s precondition, and why dictatorship is its product.

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Ayn Rand demonstrates how genuine unity rests upon the inviolability of individual rights.

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In this interview, Miss Rand discusses:

• The importance of a written constitution;
• A republic vs. a democracy;
• The nature of America’s checks and balances;
• Electoral re-apportionment and “one-man-one-vote”;
• Amending the Constitution.

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Ayn Rand is interviewed by Edwin Newman on such topics as feminism, environmentalism, drug use and Kant’s cultural influence.

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An explanation by Ayn Rand of why the interests of rational men do not clash.

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