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Clearance Sale on Ayn Rand Merchandise
Sale prices available while supplies last
Atlas Shrugged 50th Anniversary Merchandise
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Atlas Shrugged 50th Anniversary Lapel Pin
1" x 3/4" lapel pin with full-color Atlas Shrugged 50th Anniversary graphic and epoxy dome.
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Men's Atlas Shrugged 50th Anniversary T-Shirt
100% cotton high-quality T-Shirt in "Denim Blue" for men featuring full-color Atlas Shrugged 50th Anniversary graphic.
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100% ring-spun cotton premium Stitched Fashion 'T' for men in "Pine Green" with "Pebble Gold" color contrast-stitching
featuring the full-color Atlas Shrugged 50th Anniversary graphic. Slightly more fitted than the standard men's
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Ayn Rand Centenary Lapel Pin
1" x 3/4" lapel pin with full-color Centenary graphic and epoxy dome.
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Ayn Rand Centenary Coffee Mug
11-ounce white stoneware coffee mug with full-color Centenary graphic and ARI logo on reverse.
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Ayn Rand Centenary T-Shirt
100% pre-shrunk cotton, high-quality white t-shirt with full-color Centenary graphic hand-silk-screened on
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Major clearance sale on audiocassette products!
The Ayn Rand Bookstore is pleased to announce a clearance sale on all audiocassette products published by the Ayn Rand Bookstore,
while supplies last.
In order to clear out our existing audiocassette supplies, we are now discounting prices to $4.95 per cassette. A single-cassette
item will be $4.95; a two-cassette product will sell for $9.90; and so on. In some cases, prices are now as much as 75% below list price.
Sale prices will remain effective until all of our audiocassette products are sold out. Audiocassette products will later
be reintroduced in other formats.
All of our audiocassette products can be found through the links at the left. Browse our product listings to find the best deals. For more
information, please contact us at 800-729-6149.
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New Low Price!
Russian Writings on Hollywood
By Ayn Rand
Edited by Michael S. Berliner
Translated by Dina Schein Federman
Ayn Rand was a powerful writer and a passionate valuer. This book is a glimpse into Ayn Rand's
literary beginnings and into her values as a young woman in Russia. It features two newly discovered
works of hers, a booklet on Hollywood and a biography of a movie star, neither of which has ever
before been published in English" … more
Softcover; 223 pages: $7.95 (formerly $19.95)
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The Ayn Rand Photo Series Set 10:
Ayn Rand and Architecture
As the latest installment from the Ayn Rand Photo Series, the Ayn Rand Bookstore presents "Ayn Rand and Architecture,"
a set of four historic prints available for purchase for the first time.
This set of four high-quality images, including exclusive selections from the Ayn Rand Archives, reveals Ayn
Rand's love and knowledge of architecture, from the fascination with skyscrapers
she shared with her sister to the Frank Lloyd Wright buildings that she visited. The captions included with each photo
discuss Ayn Rand's evaluations of the buildings, and how they affected her personally.
These prints are carefully scanned and are reproduced in high resolution on
high-quality photographic paper. They are suitable for either framing or collecting in a special Ayn Rand Photo Series
Collector's Album, also available from the Ayn Rand Bookstore.
More info:
Photo Set 10: Ayn Rand and Architecture: $19.95
Also Available:
Collector's Album (with Photo Set 1): $44.95
Photo Set 1: Ayn Rand in Russia: $19.95
Photo Set 2: Ayn Rand in Hollywood—The Early Years: $19.95
Photo Set 3: Ayn Rand in Hollywood—Modeling Costumes: $19.95
Photo Set 4: Ayn Rand In Hollywood—The Later Years: $19.95
Photo Set 5: Ayn Rand and Entertainment Personalities: $19.95
Photo Set 6: Ayn Rand Portraits for Her Fiction and Nonfiction: $19.95
Photo Set 7: Ayn Rand and Frank O'Connor: $19.95
Photo Set 8: Ayn Rand and the O'Connor Brothers: $19.95
Photo Set 9: Ayn Rand and Writing: $19.95
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Philosophic Issues in Economics
By Harry Binswanger
An application of Objectivist methodology to the task of identifying the actual base of economics. Dr. Binswanger
covers such topics as: altruism vs. economics; the axiomatic concepts of economics; the proper definition of
"economics"; "reduction to the perceptual level" in economics; capitalism and "socially objective value;
"marginal value"; the proper definition of "inflation"; proper and mistaken views of
competition … more
(4 hrs, 32 min., with Q & A)
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Audio CD; 6-CD set: $61.95
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The Islamic World and the West Today
By Elan Journo
Is U.S. policy in the Middle East to blame for Muslim hostility toward the West? How should we respond
to Muslim demands for instituting Islamic laws within the West? In addressing these questions, this
course examines American policies toward Iran and Israel, and explores the nature and origins of the
cultural clash between Europe and Muslims living there … more
(4 hrs, 31 min., with Q & A)
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Audio CD; 6-CD set: $61.95
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Intellectual Activism: A Case Study in Health-Care Activism
By Lin Zinser
What can nonprofessional intellectuals do to advance cultural change?
Drawing on the history of health care and on her experiences as the founder of Colorado's FIRM (Freedom & Individual
Rights in Medicine), Ms. Zinser explores some effective ways one can positively influence the
culture … more
(4 hrs, 27 min., with Q & A)
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Audio CD; 6-CD set: $60.95
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Freedom of Speech in American History
By Eric Daniels
Freedom of speech is fundamental to maintaining American political liberty. Increasing government controls over speech
are damaging one of America's most important freedoms. To use freedom of speech effectively to change the culture, one
must know the proper basis of free speech. This course investigates the history of free-speech controversies and the
theoretical changes in understanding this vital right, including an explanation of the proper basis of free
speech … more
(4 hrs, 24 min., with Q & A)
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Audio CD; 6-CD set: $62.95
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Ayn Rand as Intellectual Activist
By Dina Schein Federman
This talk focuses on Ayn Rand's unique approach to changing the world and extracts lessons for our own fight to
promote Objectivism. Dr. Federman surveys Miss Rand's intellectual activism and reports on her experiences that
made her conclude that political activism without intellectual activism is futile, that the cause of our
political problems is the ideas our culture holds, and that political conservatives harm capitalism more than the
leftists do … more
(84 min., with Q & A)
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Audio CD; 2-CD set: $20.45
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The Art of Introspection
By Edwin A. Locke
This is an introductory course on introspection. It deals with such topics as what introspection is, why it is
important and why most people do not or cannot do it. The course presents seven principles to guide introspection
and uses various exercises to develop introspective skills, including skill at identifying emotions, promoting
self-esteem and understanding one's reactions to other people … more
(4 hrs, 25 min., with Q & A)
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Audio CD; 4-CD set: $60.95
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Global Warming: The Science, Politics and Philosophy
By Keith Lockitch
Decades of environmentalist activism have entrenched in the general public a widespread belief in global
warming; it is now widely assumed to be a proven scientific fact that human activity is causing an unnatural,
catastrophic warming of the earth that will have devastating consequences for human life. This course
explores the scientific claims advanced by proponents of global warming as well as the demands for political
action that are made on their basis … more
(4 hrs, 24 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $60.95
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Objectivism and the Future of Art
By Sandra Shaw
Kant's subjectivism has dominated art since World War II in the form of the "modern art" movement, yet a
recent trend of realist art has emerged that opposes modern art. This course examines the intellectual
sources of modern art and its opponents. Analyses of artworks across the Modern Age through today
demonstrate our critical need for the Objectivist view of an art rooted in rational cognition and
values … more
(4 hrs., 11 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $56.95
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The Menace of Pragmatism
By Tara Smith
While Objectivism confronts an array of ideological enemies, all of them are fueled by a particular intellectual
method: pragmatism. Invariably presented in the robes of reason, pragmatism's allure is hard to resist. Yet its
effects are uniformly destructive.
This lecture illuminates what pragmatism is; its pervasiveness in our society; the elements of its appeal; its
fundamental errors; the vast material and spiritual damage it imposes; steps that a person can take to combat
pragmatism—in the culture and in himself … more
(87 min., with Q & A)
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Audio CD; 2-CD set: $21.45
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Cultural Movements: Creating Change
By Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate
Among the cultural forces in ascendancy over the last few decades are "free" markets and the resulting globalization;
environmentalism; and religion. These three lectures examine the rise of global markets, environmentalism and religion
in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. The lectures address questions such as: What steps did these
movements take to gain their success? How were they organized? What did they count on? What do they seem to be
planning for the future?
Having examined these movements, Dr. Brook and Dr. Ghate extract what we can learn from them in regard to changing a
culture. How can we as a movement organize and work most effectively to bring about the kind of world Ayn Rand's
philosophy equips us to create? … more
(4 hrs., 25 min., with Q & A)
More info:
DVD; 3-DVD set: $26.95
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $24.95
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Cultural Commentary Q & A
By Leonard Peikoff
In this riveting Q-&-A session, delivered at Objectivist Summer Conference 2008, Dr. Peikoff tackles questions
that include: Why are so few women involved in Objectivism? What were Ayn Rand's views on evolution? What
changes would he make to his book The Ominous Parallels if he were writing it today? Dr. Peikoff also
discusses his favorite memories of Ayn Rand and the status of his new
book … more
(72 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD: $19.95
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McBama vs. America
By Craig Biddle
(ARI Lecture Series; October 29, 2008)
Preorder now for expected delivery in early December
Although John McCain and Barack Obama struggled during their presidential campaigns to distinguish
themselves in terms of particular promises, it is crucial for Americans to recognize that these
politicians are indistinguishable in terms of fundamentals. In this talk, which is a sequel to his
article of the same title, Craig Biddle, editor of The Objective Standard, delves deeper into
the philosophy that gives rise to McCain and Obama's unified calls for Americans to sacrifice for a
"greater good." Mr. Biddle argues that the sacrificial agendas of both men are rooted ultimately in
religion—and that religion is what Americans must be willing and able to challenge if we want
to return government to its proper function of protecting our rights to life, liberty, property, and
the pursuit of happiness … more
(2 hrs., 22 min., with Q & A)
More info:
DVD: $18.95
Audio CD; 2-CD set: $16.95
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Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed
Edited by Marlene Podritske and Peter Schwartz
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)
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Capitalism Without Guilt: The Moral Case for Freedom
By Yaron Brook
(ARI Lecture Series; October 22, 2008)
Yaron Brook demonstrates how Ayn Rand’s revolutionary ethics of rational self-interest supplied the moral
foundation that previous proponents of capitalism lacked. Dr. Brook explains why individual rights are crucial
for capitalism’s survival—why productivity and profit, the "selfish greed" that conservatives abhor, are
not vices but cardinal virtues. He explains why Americans must reject McCain/Obama-style "national service"
and instead proudly embrace the radical individualism their lives and happiness
require … more
(88 min., with Q & A)
More info:
DVD: $18.95
Audio CD; 2-CD set: $16.95
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Two New Audiobooks!
The Romantic Manifesto
By Ayn Rand
Read by Bernadette Dunn
A profoundly original presentation of a rational esthetics.
CD Audiobook: $59.95
MP3 CD Audiobook: $29.95
The Voice of Reason
By Ayn Rand
Read by Bernadette Dunn
Ayn Rand addresses topics as varied as a "fairness doctrine" for education, sexual psychology, and the values personified by Marilyn Monroe.
CD Audiobook: $89.95
MP3 CD Audiobook: $29.95
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Objectivism in One Lesson
By Andrew Bernstein
This book seeks to show that Ayn Rand's philosophy, on every question, topic, and issue, from its commitment
to logic to its advocacy of selfishness to its championing of laissez-faire capitalism, to every other, is
integrated around one unifying theme: man's rational mind is his sole means of gaining knowledge, survival,
and happiness. This is what Bernstein presents as: The Lesson of
Objectivism … more
(127 pages)
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Softcover: $24.95
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The Resurgence of Big Government
By Yaron Brook
(ARI Lecture Series; September 18, 2008)
Yaron Brook discusses why Americans began to embrace free markets during the '80s and '90s—and why this
trend could not last. He argues that capitalism had proved itself to be the only economic system capable of
achieving lasting prosperity, but that a crucial failure on the part of capitalism's defenders made the
resurgence of big government inevitable … more
(2 hrs., with Q & A)
More info:
DVD: $18.95
Audio CD; 2-CD set: $16.95
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Three new Spanish-Language Ayn Rand Titles!
Filosofía: Quién la Necesita
By Ayn Rand
This is the Spanish-language edition of Philosophy: Who Needs It. In this collection of essays, Ayn Rand sumarizes
her view of philosophy.
Hardcover: $24.95
El Manifiesto Romántico
By Ayn Rand
This is the Spanish-language edition of The Romantic Manifesto. A profoundly original presentation of a rational esthetics.
Hardcover: $22.95
Capitalismo: El Ideal Desconocido
By Ayn Rand
This is the Spanish-language edition of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. A comprehensive defense of the only social system
consistent with man's requirements as a rational being: laissez-faire capitalism.
Hardcover: $26.95
Also available:
La Rebelión de Atlas (Atlas Shrugged)
Paperback: $16.95
El Manantial (The Fountainhead)
Paperback: $14.95
Los Que Vivimos (We the Living)
Hardcover: $34.95
Himno (Anthem)
Paperback: $19.95
La Virtud del Egoismo (The Virtue of Selfishness)
Paperback: $28.95
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Now in softcover!
Solon the Thinker
By John Lewis
In Solon the Thinker John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing,
self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not
through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual health of its
people, depends upon their acceptance of justice and moderation as orderly norms of life and leads to the
rejection of tyranny and slavery in favor of freedom. But Solon's naturalistic views are limited; in his own life
each person is subject to the arbitrary foibles of moira, the inscrutable fate that governs human life
and that brings us to an unknowable but inevitable death. Solon represents both the new rational, scientific
spirit that was sweeping the Aegean—and a return to the fatalism that permeated Greek intellectual
life … more
(178 pages)
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Early Greek Lawgivers
By John Lewis
This book examines the men who brought laws to the early Greek city-states, as an introduction both to the development
of law and to the basic issues in early legal practice. The lawgiver was a man of special status, who could resolve
disputes without violence, and bring a sense of order to his community by proposing comprehensive norms of ethical
conduct. He established those norms in the form of oral or written
laws … more
(100 pages)
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Softcover: $22.95
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Property Rights in American History
By Eric Daniels
This course investigates the history of property rights in America from the founding era to the present. Dr.
Daniels illustrates how property rights came under political and moral attack in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, and how a proper defense of property rights is the means of defending all individual
rights more fully. He also indicates, in detail, how property rights lost constitutional protection in
America's judicial system … more
(4 hrs., 36 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $62.95
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James Jerome Hill: Empire Builder
By Talbot Manvel
The Great Northern Railway was built without a penny of federal money and never went bankrupt. The listener will
learn the story of James J. Hill and how he took a bankrupt railroad in Minnesota and built it into a
transcontinental railroad to the Pacific Ocean. Hill built slowly, but profitably, across a desolate,
inhospitable region, and turned it into the prosperous American Northwest of a million and half people, a feat
that earned him the title "Empire Builder" … more
(75 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD: $18.75
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Plato's Laws
By Robert Mayhew
"God or some human-strangers, who is given credit for laying down your laws?" So begins Plato's last and
longest dialogue, the Laws. In the Republic, Plato created his ideal political community,
wherein philosopher-kings ruled absolutely. Years later, in the Laws, he described in detail what
he claimed is the second best city—one ruled not by philosophers but by laws. This course expands
one's knowledge of Plato's philosophy through a close look at this neglected work. As one might expect,
given the opening line of the dialogue, the main concerns of the Laws are political philosophy and
religion—and the connection between the two. Dr. Mayhew pays special attention to Book 10 of the
Laws, which contains Plato's arguments for the existence of gods and his account of what a good
city ought to do with atheists … more
(4 hrs., 24 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $60.95
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The Scientific Revolution
By David Harriman
The scientific revolution of the seventeenth century was a turning point in the history of human thought. The
efficacy of the inductive method, based on experiment and mathematics, was dramatically demonstrated in the
work of a few great men. In this course, Mr. Harriman focuses primarily on Kepler and Newton. Their discovery
processes are examined, and the epistemological criteria of proof for a scientific theory are
discussed … more
(4 hrs., 38 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 4-CD set: $62.95
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The Morality of Capitalism
By Eric Daniels
(ARI Lecture Series; May 22, 2008)
Despite capitalism's enormous success in producing material abundance and political freedom, it faces a
crisis—one that may lead to its demise. Capitalism is perishing because its supposed defenders lack a real
defense.
In this lecture, Eric Daniels explores the most common arguments in favor of capitalism. He finds that they all
break down in the face of the popular argument that capitalism is immoral and destructive—because it is
selfish. Dr. Daniels explains that only Ayn Rand's crucial insight—that capitalism is the only moral social
system because it is based on "the virtue of selfishness"—can truly defend capitalism. He illustrates the
need for a moral, and not just an economic, defense of
capitalism … more
(2 hrs., 23 min., with Q & A)
More info:
DVD: $18.95
Audio CD; 2-CD set: $16.95
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Thomas Edison: Self-Made Inventor
By Elan Journo
During his long, enormously productive career, Thomas Alva Edison brought into the world a plethora of
life-enhancing values. What underlay Edison's legendary productiveness and dedication to his goals? This
talk, which explores his career through 1884, aims to answer that
question … more
(92 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 2-CD set: $22.95
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Two, Three, Four and All That
By Pat Corvini
Number, though ubiquitous, is widely misunderstood. Drawing on Objectivist epistemology, this course sheds new light
on the subject by sketching a reduction of the key ideas behind the modern number system and by showing their
connection to cognition in general. Recognizing the objectivity of number provides a new framework for resolving
historical and modern debates, and yields a heightened appreciation for the science of mathematics as a
whole … more
(4 hrs., 29 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $61.95
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Woodstock's Legacy: The Rise of Environmentalism and the Religious Right
By Yaron Brook
(ARI Lecture Series; May 1, 2008)
At Ford Hall Forum in 1969, Ayn Rand examined the cultural significance of two high-profile, enormously well-attended
but very different events: Woodstock and the Apollo 11 launch. She showed why these two events, so opposite
in nature, were a product of a long-standing philosophical dichotomy, reason versus emotion.
In this talk, Yaron Brook considers how these two opposing forces have manifested themselves in American culture in the
ensuing decades. He examines the Apollonian elements which are lifting us to the stars. And he examines the Dionysian
elements—religion and environmentalism—which are dragging us back down into the mud, figuratively and
literally … more
(2 hrs., 9 min., with Q & A)
More info:
DVD: $18.95
Audio CD; 2-CD set: $16.95
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American Slavery, American Freedom
By C. Bradley Thompson
This course examines the intellectual and political history of the movement to abolish slavery in the United States. Lecture
one presents the history of American slavery and the political philosophy of those who defended it. Lecture two examines the
rise of the Abolitionist movement in the 1830s. Lecture three elucidates the wide spectrum of ideas and political programs
open to antislavery advocates during the antebellum period … more
(4 hrs., 15 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $58.95
Also by C. Bradley Thompson:
Antislavery Political Writings, 1833–1860: A Reader
The abolitionist movement in nineteenth century America led directly to the end of slavery in the United States. The movement
was deeply divided, however, as abolitionists clashed with each other over methods, strategies, and tactics, as well as with
proslavery opponents. This unique collection of more than twenty original documents captures the deep ideological divisions
within the abolitionist movement. Together these selections demonstrate the development and deep disputes within the
antislavery movement in the years leading up to and including the Civil War.
More info:
Softcover; 320 pages: $29.95
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Economics (part 1): The Nature of Economics, Wealth and the Division of Labor
By Brian P. Simpson
This course is part 1 of a multi-part economics course. Some questions answered in part 1 include: Is economics the science of
scarcity and choice or the science of wealth creation? How does the division of labor increase productivity?
This course is equivalent to a basic undergraduate economics course, except it is taught from an Objectivist perspective. It
refutes many fallacies taught in university economics and demonstrates why it is important to understand
economics … more
(4 hrs., 29 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $61.95
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Money Can Buy Happiness
By Tara Smith
Tara Smith challenges the bromide that says that money cannot buy happiness. She argues that money's critics often
misunderstand the source and value of money, criticize it on the basis of faulty philosophical assumptions, or focus
only on pathologies involving money but stemming from other problems. Smith explains the source of money, its great
value as a tool of economic exchange, and, when earned and used well, its considerable physical and psychological
rewards. This edition is a reprint of an essay first published in Reason Papers (Summer
2003) … more
(25 pages)
More info:
Booklet: $5.95
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The Creation of Ayn Rand's Ultimate Ideal Man: Who Was John Galt?
By Shoshana Milgram
This lecture describes the creation of John Galt from Ayn Rand's earliest thoughts about the character, through her
preparatory notes and the edited drafts of the manuscript, to the final text of the novel. Topics include key
elements of the characterization, significant changes in Galt's plot function and in his relationships with other
characters, inspirations from fiction and from life, editing for style and content, and the catch phrase "Who is
John Galt?" … more
(81 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 2-CD set: $19.75
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The Objective Standard
A Journal of Culture and Politics
Subscriptions are now available through the Ayn Rand Bookstore
From the publisher:
"The Objective Standard is a quarterly journal of culture and politics based on the idea that for every human
concern—from personal matters to foreign policy, from the sciences to the arts, from education to
legislation—there are demonstrably objective standards by reference to which we can assess what is true or
false, good or bad, right or wrong. The purpose of the journal is to analyze and evaluate ideas, trends, events,
and policies accordingly.
"We maintain that the standards of both knowledge and value derive from the facts of reality; that truth is
discovered only by means of reason, i.e., through observation and logic; that the factual requirements of man's
life on earth determine his moral values; that the selfish pursuit of one's own life-serving goals is virtuous;
and that individual rights are moral principles defining the fundamental requirements of a civilized society.
"We stand opposed to the notion that the standards of knowledge and value are not factual but subjective
(feeling-based) or other-worldly (faith-based); that truth is ultimately dictated by majority opinion or a
"supernatural" being's will; that democratic consensus or "God's word" determines what is moral; that sacrifice
for the common good or in obedience to "God's commands" is virtuous; and that rights are social conventions or
"divine decrees."
"In stark contrast to these philosophic approaches, ours is a philosophy of reality, reason, egoism, and laissez-faire
capitalism. In a word, we uphold Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and it serves as our frame of reference
in analyzing the cultural and political issues of the day."
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