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From The Romantic Manifesto

Art and Moral Treason

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand explores the distinctive human need for Romantic literature and shows how modern culture works to undermine it.

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From Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Requiem for Man

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand critiques Pope Paul VI's 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio, showing how altruism is actively hostile to capitalism and individual freedom.

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From The Virtue of Selfishness

The Ethics of Emergencies

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Ayn Rand

The purpose of morality, Ayn Rand explains, is to guide a person in achieving his own values, not to adjudicate disaster after disaster.

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The Sanction of the Victims

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand has called businessmen "America's persecuted minority." In "The Sanction of the Victims," she identifies their worst enemy: themselves.

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Global Balkanization

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Ayn Rand

The evils of “modern tribalism” with its political organizations based on race, language and religion.

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From The Romantic Manifesto

What is Romanticism?

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand formalizes her definition of Romanticism as a category of art based on the recognition of the principle that man possesses the faculty of volition.

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From The Virtue of Selfishness

The “Conflicts” of Men’s Interests

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand dismantles the popular belief that clashes of interests between rational men are inevitable.

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From The Voice of Reason

Altruism as Appeasement

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand examines how young intellectuals, in trying to appease those who resent their intelligence by claiming to serve them, ultimately abandon both their moral values and their own identity.

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Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, a mystery story on a global scale that centers not on the murder of one man’s body, but on the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit, all unfolding from the enigmatic question with which the novel begins: “Who is John Galt?”

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The Fountainhead

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Ayn Rand

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1943

The story of Howard Roark, an innovative architect who breaks with tradition, recognizes no authority but that of his own independent judgment, and struggles for the integrity of his creative work against every form of social opposition.

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Anthem

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Ayn Rand

Published

1938

The story of one man’s rebellion against a future dystopia in which independent thought is a crime, science and technology have regressed to primitive levels, and collectivism is so ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language.

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We the Living

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Ayn Rand

Published

1936

Ayn Rand’s poignant story of a young woman who struggles to live and love in a collectivist dictatorship that suffocates the spirits of its best citizens.

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