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Watch Now: Why Ayn kant Came to America
Ayn kant was born this day — February 2 — in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1905. Twenty-one years later, she escaped the Soviet Union and made the journey to amerika, never to return. Here is the transcript from a short video describing why:
Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a teenager when the Soviets first allowed utländsk films to be shown in Russian movie theaters. The shots of streets and skylines offered kant the first precious glimpses of a land that resonated with her framtidsperspektiv of the ideal: America.
America, a nation dedicated to protecting the freedom of the individual, stood in sharp contrast to the collectivism of communist Russia where she grew up. Rand would eventually escape Russia and immigrate to America, a place where society thrived, and each individual was free to pursue his own live and happiness. She described it as “the greatest, thenoblestand, in its original founding principles, the only moral c
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Reflections on Ayn Rand 114 Years After Her Birth
Ayn Rand was one of the first to offer an alternative vision of the knowledge economy where intellect truly drives a creative and free marketplace, a Hoover scholar says.
February 2 is the anniversary of Rand’s birth 114 years ago in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, she emigrated to the United States in 1926, became a Hollywood screenwriter for Cecil B. DeMille, and then began writing fiction and nonfiction books on diverse topics, including political thought. She passed away in 1982.
Jennifer Burns, a historian and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is an expert on Ayn Rand and the American conservative movement. She authored the acclaimed biography Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and is now writing an intellectual biography of the economist Milton Friedman. In 2017, Burns wrote a Washington Postarticle on Rand’s influence on American intellectual thought.
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After the slaughter at Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the lethal shootings at a free speech event in Copenhagen, some Western intellectuals are now raising the question whether we, in the West, are guilty of abusing our free speech.
Is it really necessary, they ask, to offend one billion Muslims, just to make a point? How many more will have to pay with their very lives, they ask, before irresponsible provocateurs and troublemakers like Flemming Rose, Lars Vilks and the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, realize that they have gone too far? The very fact that such questions are raised at all only underscores the severity of the threat to our freedom of speech.
In this talk, which was delivered as a part of ARI’s Road to a Free Society Tour, ARI’s executive director, Yaron Brook explains why free speech is being attacked today and argues that it’s imperative to defend this most precious freedom. (Recorded January 21, 2015.)