The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

Ayn Rand is interviewed on the topic of her book The Virtue of Selfishness, as she explains the Objectivist approach to ethics. Miss Rand discusses the moral injustice of taxation, the dependence of the incompetent on the competent; her personal struggle as a writer.

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Yaron Brook discusses what would happen America did not have a social safety net. This interview with The Street was recorded on February 24, 2012.

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Yaron Brook is a guest on Sounds of Film to discuss the Atlas Shrugged movie. Recorded November 17, 2011.

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Yaron Brook comments on the Occupy Wall Street movement, and continues into a general discussion of the nature of selfishness. This appearance on The Mike Slater Show was recorded November 18, 2011.

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Yaron Brook discusses the financial crisis, and explains to business students why they should act in their rational self-interest. These are excerpts from a talk given at Babson College on March 28, 2011.

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Yaron Brook discusses the practical meaning of Ayn Rand’s ethics. This talk was recorded on January 26, 2011, at the Adam Smith Institute in London.

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This episode of The Leonard Peikoff Show, recorded May 8, 1996, discusses the nature of altruism and sacrifice.

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Yaron Brook discusses selfishness and altruism as a guest on Freedom Watch. (Recorded November 24, 2010. Dr. Brook’s appearance begins after 6:15.)

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American foreign policy has long been enormously controversial–widely denounced as arrogant, selfish, and self-defeating. This talk explores the question: what kind of foreign policy is actually consistent with the principle of individual rights? The talk was delivered at UCLA on January 31, 2010, and was hosted by LOGIC, the UCLA Objectivist club.

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Atlas Shrugged is a story about the rarest of revolutions, a revolution in our understanding of morality. Only such a revolution, the novel in effect argues, can restore us on the path to freedom. This talk by Onkar Ghate explores some of the reasons why. The talk was delivered at UCLA on January 31, 2010 and was hosted by LOGIC, the UCLA Objectivist club.

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