In this lecture, delivered in 1964 at Ford Hall Forum in Boston, Miss Rand discusses the relationship of the events presented in Atlas Shrugged to the actual events occurring in the world—and addresses the question: is Atlas Shrugged a prophetic novel, or a historical one?
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98 min. From the Government and Here to Help
From the financial crisis to Obamacare to the budget debates, the size and scope of government is being debated across the country. One side calls for more regulation to foster equitable prosperity, while the other side says government has grown too big and intrusive. David Callahan, co-founder of Demos, and Yaron Brook join Ford Hall Forum president Dominick Ianno to debate the fundamental social, economic, and moral ideas that underlie politics in America today. Recorded September 29, 2011.
87 min. Cultural Update
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.)
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