The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

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.

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Delivered at the Ford Hall Forum in 1978. Ayn Rand reviews the themes of all the Ford Hall Forum lectures she had delivered since 1961, and asks: “Have things changed since then, and, if so, in what direction?”

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Ayn Rand offers a probing examination of the rise of modern tribalism in the West. It identifies the irrationalism from which the anti-concept “ethnicity” springs. Recorded at the Ford Hall Forum in 1977.

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Ayn Rand explains how the preconceptual epistemology of primitives is the fundamental source of inflation. A stunning analysis of how production—requiring a grasp of the link between time and savings—evolved. Delivered at the Ford Hall Forum in 1974.

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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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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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