Academic News

Objectivist Academic Center (OAC)

For Students

• We are now accepting applications for the new 2010 Summer Internship program! Apply by April 1, 2010.
• Read ARI's Press Release about the OAC
• We are now accepting registrations to audit the 2009-10 Seminar on Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism. Find out more about auditing here. You can also download a flyer here. 
• Why apply? See our video:

For Professors

• ARI can arrange for volume discounts of Ayn Rand’s works for classroom use
• The Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship makes gifts to universities in support of scholarship on Ayn Rand and her ideas, as well as offers a variety of resources for professors who teach Rand in the classroom.

Video & Audio

ARCTV

ARC’s multimedia Web site, ARCTV, collects recordings of ARC media appearances, including lectures, radio and TV interviews, video op-eds and much more. Content includes recordings hosted by ARC, as well as links to recordings of ARC speakers on other sites.

From ARI

Video Introduction for New Site Visitors

In this video, ARI president Dr. Yaron Brook presents an overview of Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and the Ayn Rand Institute.
» watch

The Ayn Rand Multimedia Library

Ayn Rand and the “New Intellectual”

An Introduction to Objectivism

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

"Making a Virtue of Selfishness? A Debate about Ayn Rand's Ethics"

MP3 download
Featuring Onkar Ghate and Michael Huemer. Hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder's THINK series.

» More video and audio on Ayn Rand’s books and ideas

From ARC

The ARC Lecture Series

“Cultural Movements: Creating Change”

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

Radio Interviews with Our Writers and Speakers

Browse interviews

» More ARC video & audio recordings

Peikoff.com

Philosophical Q&As

Browse podcast updates from Leonard Peikoff's Web site

ARC Speakers on YouTube

From the AynRandInstitute channel

» More recordings on YouTube

Campaigns

The Ayn Rand Institute allows you to target your contribution dollars to certain important ARI campaigns:

For Registered Users

Now available: Exclusive free content for registered users!

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

Our current feature:
The Leonard Peikoff Show
Tie-In Contest

If you aren’t a registered user of this site, registration is fast, free and easy! » Register Now

Read Impact Online

ARI's monthly Impact newsletter is now available online in a free electronic edition! The print edition remains available to ARI contributors of $35 or more.

New Book from ARI

Winning the Unwinnable War is a provocative new book from the Ayn Rand Institute that offers principled and compelling answers to the problems and confusions that plague American foreign policy. Years after 9/11 and in the shadow of two protracted U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East, the enemy is not only undefeated but emboldened and resurgent. What went wrong—and what should we do going forward?

» Buy the book
» Web site

Essay Contests

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

• Anthem

  For 8th, 9th & 10th graders
  Deadline: March 20, 2010

• The Fountainhead

  For 11th & 12th graders
  Deadline: April 26, 2010

• Atlas Shrugged

  For college students and graduating high school seniors
  Deadline: September 17, 2010

Student Clubs

ARI supports student-run campus clubs at high schools and colleges throughout the world.

• Student Clubs
  An overview of student clubs
• Speaking Events
  Objectivist speakers on campus
• Call to Action
  Yaron Brook’s video series
• Current Student Clubs
  Find a nearby club

New Web Site

Principles of a Free Society is a new Web site that presents Ayn Rand's explanation of what makes individuals and societies truly free.

Upcoming Events

Seminars

Ayn Rand: A Philosopher Who Lived Objectively

An all-day seminar taught by Shoshana Milgram
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Saturday, March 20, 2010

This seminar examines the development of Rand's philosophy through the course of her colorful life, including a childhood blighted by the Bolshevik Revolution; her experiences as a Broadway playwright, Hollywood screenwriter, and political campaigner; and her renown as a lecturer and writer on her system of thought.

General admission tickets are $120; however, ARI supporters can receive an $85 discount rate by using Promotion Code 182197.

[Details and tickets]

Benefit Dinner

The Atlas Shrugged Revolution

Los Angeles, California
April 7, 2010

[more info]

Conferences

Objectivist Summer Conference 2010

Las Vegas, Nevada
July 2-10, 2010

[more info]

Campus Events

March 16, 2010
Seattle, WA

Capitalism Without Guilt: The Moral Case for Freedom
By Yaron Brook

University of Washington
Smith Hall, Room 120 [map]
7:00pm

Campus events calendar

ARC Lecture Series

No ARC Lecture Series events are currently scheduled. New events will be posted here as information becomes available.

At ARI

Employment Opportunities

ARI is currently recruiting for an Education Dept. Assistant, Policy Research Assistant, Instructor and a Senior Instructor. [more info]

Volunteer Opportunities

Special volunteer opportunities are available in ARI's Academic Division. [more info]

The Ayn Rand Bookstore

Product Spotlight

Atlas Shrugged

By Ayn Rand

The incomparable novel about the men of the mind on strike against the creed of self-sacrifice.

Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a continual bestseller as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most—and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor—and the motive power of every man?

Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life—from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy, to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction, to the philosopher who becomes a pirate, to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph, to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad, to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.

» Video: "Atlas Shrugged and the Tea Party Revolts"
» Read an excerpt
» Read more about Atlas Shrugged

Available formats:
Paperback Centennial Edition
Softcover Centennial Edition
Hardcover Centennial Edition
CD Audiobook
MP3 CD Audiobook