INSTRUCTORS

Ben Bayer
Instructor & Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
Ayn Rand Novels & Ideas, Epistemology, Free Will & Determinism
Onkar Ghate
Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s novels & ideas, Religion & morality
Elan Journo
Senior Fellow and Vice President of Content Products,
Foreign policy, Islamist movement, Arab-Israeli conflict
John David Lewis
Associate Professor, Duke University
History, Ancient Philosophy, Political Economy, Ancient and Modern
Keith Lockitch
Vice President of Education and Senior Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
Ayn Rand’s novels & ideas, Environmental issues, Evolution vs. creationism
Mike Mazza
Associate Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
Philosophy of Science, Logic, Objectivism
John Ridpath
Associate Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto
Capitalism, Socialism, Morality of social systems
Gregory Salmieri
Senior Scholar of Philosophy at the Salem Center, University of Texas at Austin
Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Epistemology
Dan Schwartz
Visiting Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
History of Philosophy, Francis Bacon, Philosophy of Science and Technology
Alex Silverman
Visiting Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
Early Modern Philosophy, Spinoza, Metaphysics
Aaron Smith
Instructor and Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle, Ayn Rand's novels and ideas
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
Visiting Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
Intellectual History of Political Movements, Marxism, The New Left
Sam Weaver
Associate Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
Ayn Rand's novels and ideas, Education, Literature