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ARC's Response to the
Financial Crisis

Recent Press Releases

Republican Socialists

The Right's Pathetic Opposition to the Auto Bailout

Open the Borders, End the Housing Glut

Since When Does America Allow Czars?

Save the Big Three, Kill the U.S. Auto Market

Recent Video

Capitalism Without Guilt: The Moral Case for Freedom
By Yaron Brook
Recorded October 22, 2008, at the National Press Club

 

And More . . .

Browse more video and written commentary by ARC speakers and writers on ARC's financial crisis commentary page.

ARC's Response to the Financial Crisis

 

Recent Commentary

Recent Op-Eds

What to Resolve This New Year

The High Cost of Washington's Price Manipulation Policy

Stop Blaming Capitalism for Government Failures

Nationalization Is Theft

The Maestro vs. the Market

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For all ARI articles on current events, visit our Media section.



ARC's Yaron Brook Interviewed in Newsweek

Newsweek has published an interview with ARC Executive Director Yaron Brook: "Who Is To Blame?"


ARC on Fox News Web site

ARC writer Alex Epstein's article "The Bailout: Just a $700 Billion Hedge Fund?" has been published on the Fox News Web site.


ARC Featured at Time.com

The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, a division of the Ayn Rand Institute, is featured in an article at Time Magazine's Web site: "What Would Ayn Rand Have Done?" ARC Executive Director Yaron Brook discusses the current expansion of government power.


Yaron Brook at Forbes.com

The Government Did It

July 18, 2008

Don’t call the mortgage crisis the result of insufficient regulation. Our government was behind the wheel all along.

From Flat World to Free World

June 16, 2008

Renewed focus on nationalism worldwide, coupled with lackluster defense of capitalism, has left free markets vulnerable.

Life and Taxes

April 17, 2008

Message to our presidential candidates: Free us from our tax code, don’t just add more pages.

War on Free Political Speech

March 21, 2008

If we want a truly level playing field in this fall’s campaign, abolish campaign finance laws.

To Stimulate the Economy, Liberate It

February 14, 2008

Pumping more money into Americans’ hands won’t free them from their bonds.

Visit Forbes.com for a complete selection of articles by Yaron Brook.

And don’t miss Forbes’s coverage of ARI in their article “Atlas Shrugs Again.”


ARI Staff Writers in The Objective Standard

The Morality of Moneylending: A Short History,” by Yaron Brook

Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Autopsy,” by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein

‘Just War Theory’ vs. American Self-Defense,” by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein

The ‘Forward Strategy’ for Failure,” by Yaron Brook and Elan Journo

Exposing Anti-Muslim ‘Conspiracies,’” by Elan Journo

The Jihad on America,” by Elan Journo

 

ARI Staff Interviewed in EdNews

 

New Web Site

The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights (ARC) is a public policy and media center in Washington, DC. A division of the Ayn Rand Institute, the Center advocates for individual rights, with an emphasis on the morality of business and capitalism.

The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

 

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Registered users of aynrand.org will now have exclusive free access to selected recordings from the Ayn Rand Bookstore, available on our Registered User Page. New recordings will be made available periodically, so check regularly for updates!

Our current feature: The Corporation, by Yaron Brook

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For Students

  • We are now accepting OAC applications for the 2009-10 academic year. Apply early and increase your chances of being accepted! 
  • We are now accepting applications for our 2009 Summer Internship. Apply today!
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Video & Audio

The ARC Lecture Series

ARC Lecture Series: The Complete Video Collection

The most recent video from the ARC Lecture Series:
The Menace of Pragmatism: How Aversion to Principle Is Destroying America
By Tara Smith
Recorded December 8, 2008

 

Video Commentary

“Put the Independence Back in Independence Day,” By Michael S. Berliner

“Cultural Movements: Creating Change”

A three-lecture series from Objectivist Summer Conference 2008. Each lecture is approximately 90 minutes.

Yaron Brook on ARI’s Cultural Impact

Reason vs. Faith (Q-&-A excerpt series)

Full series available on YouTube. This question discusses the roles of reason and faith in Western civilization.

Browse the AynRandInstitute channel on YouTube

See a wide variety of video content, including recordings of ARI speakers, press releases, Q-&-A highlights, and more!

Radio Interviews with Our Writers and Speakers

Yaron Brook Radio Q-&-A on Objectivism.

Leonard Peikoff—Philosophical Q&As

Leonard Peikoff now podcasts through his Web site his answers to selected philosophical questions which he receives by e-mail. New podcasts are available every other Monday, and occasionally every Monday.

An Introduction to Objectivism

Leonard Peikoff View streaming video of Leonard Peikoff’s 1995 lecture “An Introduction to Objectivism."

The Ayn Rand Multimedia Library

The Ayn Rand Multimedia Library


And more...

Browse additional video and audio on Ayn Rand’s books and ideas, and commentary on current events.

Essay Contests

ARI awards $81,250 in prize money each year to the winners of its essay contests. The following contests are available:

 

Upcoming Events

ARC Lecture Series

Thursday, January 29, 2008

The Financial Crisis: Causes and Possible Cures
By John Allison

Doors open: 6 PM
Lecture and Q & A: 6:30 PM
Location TBA 


Conferences

July 3-11, 2009

Objectivist Summer Conference 2009
Boston, Massachusetts

Objectivist Summer Conference 2009


Campus Events

There are no more campus events scheduled for the current semester. Please check for more event listings in mid-January.

 

 

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Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed

Edited by Marlene Podritske and Peter Schwartz

Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed

Preorder now for expected delivery in early January

Half a century of print and broadcast interviews of Ayn Rand are included in Objectively Speaking. This collection includes print interviews from the 1930s and 1940s, and edited transcripts of radio and television interviews from the 1950s through 1981. Ayn Rand's unusual and strikingly original insights on a vast range of topics are captured by prominent interviewers in American broadcasting, such as Johnny Carson, Edwin Newman, Mike Wallace and Louis Rukeyser. A remarkable series of radio interviews over a four-year period at Columbia University are also included. An appendix provides a transcript of a radio program of Leonard Peikoff discussing Ayn Rand's unique intellectual and literary achievements . . .  more

(276 pages)

Softcover: $29.95
Hardcover: $34.95

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