The Ayn Rand Reader Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum

The Ayn Rand Reader Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall ForumBy Ayn Rand Edited by Gary Hull and Leonard Peikoff Introduction by Leonard Peikoff This book provides an invaluable means of introducing Ayn Rand to new audiences. Here, for the first time, is a single collection of lengthy samples of Ayn Rand's writings on the crucial issues of philosophy. These are carefully chosen excerpts, alternating between her fiction and non fiction, with brief introductions explaining the context of each selection. Passages

contrasting the Realist idea of “insight” with Ayn Rand’s theory of “the unit-perspective

How the act of abstracting is volitionally initiated

These classes examine Marxism as a secular version of the Judeo-Christian redemption saga

Many literature teachers no longer teach the classics

organization

that love is blind and impervious to the power of philosophy

Ayn Rand's Ethics: From The Fountainhead to Atlas Shrugged

The Danger of Experts

not the voting booth

Almost everyone acknowledges that Nazism was one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century

By Scott McConnell

Recorded in 2008