The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

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

More »

permalink

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.

More »

permalink

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.

More »

permalink

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.

More »

permalink

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.

More »

permalink