Speeches and Interviews

These recordings are presented through the generosity of the Estate of Ayn Rand and are also available from the Ayn Rand Institute eStore.

Lectures

• Aristotle
• Art in Education
• The Brain Drain
• Video: Capitalism vs. Communism
• “Conflicts” of Men’s Interests
• Conservatism: An Obituary
• Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World
• The Fascist New Frontier
• The Foreign Policy of a Mixed Economy
• “Let Us Alone!”
• The Money-Making Personality
• Introducing Objectivism
• The Objectivist Ethics
• Our Esthetic Vacuum
• Philosophy: Who Needs It
• Rebellion at Columbia
• Video: The Sanction of the Victims
• Today’s Intellectual State

Interviews

• 19th-Century Capitalism
• Video: Ayn Rand and the “New Intellectual”
• Conservatism vs. Objectivism
• The Enemies of “Extremism”
• Interview with Ayn Rand
• Issues in Education
• The Nature of Rights
• Objective Law
• Politics of a Free Society
• The Press in a Free Society
• The Psychology of Altruism
• Q & A on Objectivism
• The “Robber Barons”
• Romantic Literature
• Selfishness as a Virtue
• Significance of the Goldwater Campaign
• Speaking Freely
• The Structure of Government

At the Ford Hall Forum

• The Age of Mediocrity
• America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business
• Apollo and Dionysus
• Censorship: Local and Express
• Cultural Update
• Egalitarianism and Inflation
• Global Balkanization
• The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age
• Is Atlas Shrugging?
• The Moral Factor
• The Moratorium on Brains
• A Nation’s Unity
• The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus
• Of Living Death
• Our Cultural Value-Deprivation
• What Is Capitalism?
• The Wreckage of the Consensus