Archive for Tag “Ford Hall Forum”


112 min. A Nation’s Unity

Ayn Rand demonstrates how genuine unity rests upon the inviolability of individual rights.

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61 min. The Age of Mediocrity

From 1981—Ayn Rand’s predictions about Ronald Reagan (“a pragmatist who leans to the right”) just after he took office. Her final Ford Hall address is a case-study in prognostication by philosophy.

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111 min. Of Living Death

A lecture by Ayn Rand, recorded at the Ford Hall Forum in 1968. How religion seeks to undercut man’s self-esteem by inculcating guilt for enjoying sex—and for daring to think that his own happiness is the purpose of his life.

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2 hrs., 2 min. Censorship: Local and Express

Delivered by Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum in 1973. This lecture analyzes the Supreme Court’s upholding of anti-pornography laws. Discussion covers the “marketplace of goods” and the “marketplace of ideas,” and why conservatives want to control the intellectual realm, and liberals the material realm.

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2 hrs., 1 min. Apollo and Dionysus

This lecture, delivered by Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum in 1969, concretizes the issue of reason vs. emotion via an analysis of two contrasting events of that year: the glorious achievement of the Apollo 11 moon flight and the mindless mud-wallowing of the Woodstock rock festival.

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