Archive for Tag “Ford Hall Forum”
77 min. Medicine: The Death of a Profession
Leonard Peikoff describes how government intervention in medicine is leading to the eventual unavailability of competent medical care in America. This talk was delivered at the Ford Hall Forum on April 14, 1985.
A print version of this talk is also available.
112 min. A Nation’s Unity
61 min. The Age of Mediocrity
111 min. Of Living Death
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.
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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