Archive for “Ayn Rand”
29 min. 19th-Century Capitalism
87 min. Cultural Update
27 min. The Money-Making Personality
29 min. Issues in Education
24 min. Interview with Ayn Rand
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.
90 min. Global Balkanization
81 min. Egalitarianism and Inflation
52 min. The Moratorium on Brains
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.)
68 min. Philosophy: Who Needs It
In March 1974, Ayn Rand faced the improbable task of lecturing on the crucial importance of philosophy—to the graduating class of West Point. She succeeded magnificently: she attracted three times the expected attendance, she elicited an enthusiastic ovation, and her lecture was reprinted in a new philosophy textbook published by the U.S. Military Academy. Relive this memorable occasion, and rediscover the irresistible intellectual power of Ayn Rand.
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