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The Nature of Rights

Bryan Olive — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:43:41 +0000

Ayn Rand speaks on topics such as metaphysics and rights; the meaning of human survival; capitalism and the handicapped; and whether government has rights.

Conservatism vs. Objectivism

Bryan Olive — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:22:51 +0000

Ayn Rand speaks on the philosophically opposite approaches of Objectivism and conservatism.

19th-Century Capitalism

Bryan Olive — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:42:43 +0000

Ayn Rand speaks on topics including monopolies; the constitutional foundations of capitalism; the history of railroads; and the policy of homesteading.

Cultural Update

Bryan Olive — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:56:58 +0000

Delivered at the Ford Hall Forum in 1978. Ayn Rand reviews the themes of all the Ford Hall Forum lectures she had delivered since 1961, and asks: “Have things changed since then, and, if so, in what direction?”

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The Money-Making Personality

Bryan Olive — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:04:19 +0000

Ayn Rand analyzes the qualities required for entrepreneurial success.

Issues in Education

Bryan Olive — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:00:09 +0000

Ayn Rand discusses the purpose and value of schooling. “Indoctrination” vs. teaching. How to foster independence in children. The futility of coerced racial integration.

Interview with Ayn Rand

Bryan Olive — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:26:25 +0000

Ayn Rand covers a spectrum of issues, including: why the field of psychology is in a state of pre-science; the “one and one-half” philosophers in history who warrant her intellectual respect; the importance of introspection; the meaning of sex; her view of herself as a philosophic radical. Recorded in 1976.

Global Balkanization

Bryan Olive — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:52:18 +0000

Ayn Rand offers a probing examination of the rise of modern tribalism in the West. It identifies the irrationalism from which the anti-concept “ethnicity” springs. Recorded at the Ford Hall Forum in 1977.

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Egalitarianism and Inflation

Bryan Olive — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:44:03 +0000

Ayn Rand explains how the preconceptual epistemology of primitives is the fundamental source of inflation. A stunning analysis of how production—requiring a grasp of the link between time and savings—evolved. Delivered at the Ford Hall Forum in 1974.

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The Moratorium on Brains

Bryan Olive — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:31:45 +0000

Ayn Rand delivers a comprehensive indictment of Nixon’s wage-price freeze. Why business supported the statism of the freeze, while labor unions, courageously, did not. The grotesque spectacle of trying to revive a nation’s productivity by strait-jacketing the very people necessary to do it: the men of ability. (Recorded in 1971 at the Ford Hall Forum.)