The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

Ayn Rand is interviewed on the topic of her book The Virtue of Selfishness, as she explains the Objectivist approach to ethics. Miss Rand discusses the moral injustice of taxation, the dependence of the incompetent on the competent; her personal struggle as a writer.

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“Yaron Answers” is a regular video feature on LaissezFaire: The Uncompromised Case for Capitalism, a new blog created by the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. In this installment, Yaron Brook discusses morality’s influence on today’s political culture. Posted March 8, 2012, on LaissezFaire.

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Ayn Rand discusses a variety of subjects, including: Objectivism’s value to people of “lesser ability”; why Mill and Bentham could not defend capitalism; origins of altruism in ancient Oriental culture; and fighting for the future.

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Ayn Rand discusses the fallacy of “psychological egoism”; altruism’s false choice between sadism and masochism; self-esteem and altruism; and the desire for the unearned.

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Yaron Brook discusses efforts to drive a wedge between the Republican Party and Ayn Rand’s ideas.

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To save American health care, not to mention to save the country itself, advocates of freedom and capitalism must take the moral high ground from the proponents of government control. Yaron Brook delivered this talk at a Doctors Town Hall event sponsored by Americans for Free Choice in Medicine and The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons on May 14, 2011.

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Elan Journo is a guest of Dr. Howard Gluss on KFNX (Phoenix) to discuss America’s involvement in Libya in light of the message of Mr. Journo’s book, Winning the Unwinnable War. Recorded April 1, 2011.

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This episode of The Leonard Peikoff Show, recorded May 8, 1996, discusses the nature of altruism and sacrifice.

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Yaron Brook discusses selfishness and altruism as a guest on Freedom Watch. (Recorded November 24, 2010. Dr. Brook’s appearance begins after 6:15.)

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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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