The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

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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An interview with Ayn Rand by The Raymond Newman Journal.

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

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

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Ayn Rand exposes the non-definability of “extremism,” and discusses package-dealing as a means of evading epistemological commitment.

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Ayn Rand describes art as the barometer of a culture. Here, she looks at the content of modern art and identifies what it reveals about today’s culture.

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