A Capitol Hill launch event marked the publication of ARI senior fellow Elan Journo’s latest book, What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The July event, cosponsored by the Middle East. . .
Elan Journo
Tom BowdenIndividualism: Genuine and Counterfeit
Early this November I spoke at a student conference in Atlanta. The conference addressed the growing tribalism in the culture, and the speakers (affiliated with the Ayn Rand Institute) argued from different angles that. . .
Aaron SmithHow to Empower Students to Break Out of Safe Spaces
There is a growing recognition that something is wrong with intellectual culture on college campuses. For a while now, critics have understood the problem on a relatively superficial level. They claim that students. . .
Ben Bayer
Robert MayhewBring On the Robots: Why Automation Is Good
The size of the global automation market is forecast to reach $200 billion by 2020. As more industries deploy machines and computers, the labor market is being transformed. This is one reason why many of us worry that. . .
Agustina Vergara Cid
Ayn Rand’s Unique View of “Americanism”
One highlight of the newly released A New Textbook of Americanism: The Politics of Ayn Rand is the never-before-published Rand material on political philosophy. When Jonathan Hoenig, the book’s editor, stopped by our. . .
Is There a Proof of Ayn Rand’s Ethics?
In this New Ideal video Q&A session, I respond to a question about Ayn Rand’s ethics from a reader named Sophia, who writes: I am a high school student in 10th grade who has recently become interested in philosophy. . .
Thanksgiving: The Producer’s Holiday
In Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, there’s an unforgettable Thanksgiving scene at the mansion of Hank Rearden. Rearden is a self-made millionaire industrialist whose achievements include the invention — after ten years. . .
The Suffering of Moral Saints
Occasionally we write about what we’re currently reading, watching or listening to — not at the level of a full review, but simply to point out arguments, perspectives and issues worth considering. This is one of those. . .
