The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

This episode of The Leonard Peikoff Show, recorded April 18, 1996, challenges the audience to identify the philosophic principle that several different examples have in common.

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This is the first of four interviews with Yaron Brook on Bedrock with Larry Greenfield.

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Peter Schwartz discusses what children should be taught about sharing.  This is an excerpt from the Q-&-A session of “The Virtue of Selfishness: Why Achieving Your Happiness Is Your Highest Moral Purpose,” an ARC Lecture Series talk delivered by Mr. Schwartz on February 4, 2005.

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Yaron Brook discusses basic premises of altruism, and how they may have arisen. Excerpted from the Q&A of the lecture “Capitalism without Guilt,” given at UC Berkeley on November 24, 2008.

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In Ayn Rand’s final public talk, delivered in 1981, she exhorts a group of businessmen to stop apologizing, and stop supporting anti-capitalist institutions: “It is a moral crime to give money to support ideas with which you disagree. It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers.” See how the force of her ideas captivated an audience and drew a tumultuous response.

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In March 2009, Yaron Brook inaugurated a monthly series of “Call to Action” interviews designed for students.

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