The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

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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From 1981—Ayn Rand’s predictions about Ronald Reagan (“a pragmatist who leans to the right”) just after he took office. Her final Ford Hall address is a case-study in prognostication by philosophy.

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A lecture by Ayn Rand, recorded at the Ford Hall Forum in 1968. How religion seeks to undercut man’s self-esteem by inculcating guilt for enjoying sex—and for daring to think that his own happiness is the purpose of his life.

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Delivered by Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum in 1973. This lecture analyzes the Supreme Court’s upholding of anti-pornography laws. Discussion covers the “marketplace of goods” and the “marketplace of ideas,” and why conservatives want to control the intellectual realm, and liberals the material realm.

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