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By Ayn Rand
Briefly reviewing each of her previous lectures (listed below), Rand offers further analysis on a wide range of topics, including abortion, capitalism, censorship, ethnicity, current events, war and economics, returning often to her theme that “the heart of the battle lies in philosophy.” She closes her penultimate Ford Hall Forum appearance by passing the torch, asking: “What do we do next? I don’t think it’s up to me any longer, it is up to you.”
The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age (1961)
America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business (1961)
Is Atlas Shrugging? (1964)
The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus (1965)
Our Cultural Value-Deprivation (1966)
The Wreckage of the Consensus (1967)
What is Capitalism? (1967)
Of Living Death (1968)
Apollo and Dionysus (1969)
The Moratorium on Brains (1971)
A Nation’s Unity (1972)
Censorship: Local and Express (1973)
Egalitarianism and Inflation (1974)
The Moral Factor (1976)
Global Balkanization (1977)
In a question-and-answer session following the lecture, Rand expands on the topics she covered and also discusses:
This lecture was delivered at Boston’s Ford Hall Forum, America’s oldest (founded in 1908) continuously operating free public lecture series. Over the years, such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, and Henry Kissinger have appeared on its podium.
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