Archive for “Ayn Rand”


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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30 min. Rebellion at Columbia

Ayn Rand analyzes the aims of the New Left and the cowardly appeasement of campus thugs by university officials.

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28 min. Capitalism vs. Communism

The conflict between capitalism and communism, Ayn Rand says, is really a war of reason vs. mysticism. She warns businessmen: “You do not hire witch doctors as mechanics or engineers; do not hire them as PR men.” Recorded in 1961.

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49 min. Objectivism in Brief

An interview with Ayn Rand by The Raymond Newman Journal.

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94 min. America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business

Ayn Rand speaks on the injustice of the antitrust laws and the manner in which they penalize success for being success. Recorded in 1961 at the Ford Hall Forum.

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89 min. The Moral Factor

The psychology of the welfare state. How the citizens of Sweden, the models of allegedly benign collectivism, are actually the models of rampant envy. Ayn Rand delivered this lecture at the Ford Hall Forum in 1976.

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55 min. Our Cultural Value-Deprivation

The psychological and social consequences of the acute lack of values in modern-day culture. Ayn Rand delivered this lecture at the Ford Hall Forum in 1966.

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54 min. The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus

How the “cult of compromise” is moving America toward a fascist form of statism.

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82 min. The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age

Ayn Rand discusses the treason of today’s intellectuals against the nineteenth-century ideal of genuine liberalism. This was Ayn Rand’s first talk at the Ford Hall Forum, delivered in 1961.

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30 min. Today’s Intellectual State

Ayn Rand analyzes Republican appeasement of liberals in the 1940, 1952 and 1968 elections.

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