Archive for February, 2009

“Man’s Rights” and “The Nature of Government”

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

The first public event in which we participated was hosted last Tuesday, February 10th, at the Adam Smith Institute in London. Dr Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute, spoke on the morality of capitalism; the talk and the Q&A were taped and will be available here on this website very soon. Prior to the talk I had a short video interview with Dr Brook, which will be available as part of the same video.

At the event, we handed out free copies of Ayn Rand’s essays, “Man’s Rights” and “The Nature of Government”, which we are very grateful to the Ayn Rand Institute for providing. It has been pointed out to me that these essays are available online here and here respectively. The essays are vintage Ayn Rand: clear, principled and well-structured. They are worth reading if you haven’t seen them before.

Watch this space for the videos from last Tuesday’s event! In the meantime, you’ll have to be satisfied with my report from my own website, which also includes my recollections of some other UK events Dr Brook participated in last week.

Welcome!

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Hello and welcome to the new blog of the Ayn Rand Forum. I and various other UK-based admirers of Ayn Rand’s ideas will be blogging here about philosophy, current affairs, art — and anything else which takes our fancy. As philosophers, our subject matter is the universe!

Enjoy the blog!