Ayn Rand Institute Courses & Lectures

Grammar is the science that studies the methods of combining words into sentences. Discover how this normally dry subject is transformed into an engrossing epistemological field of study.

This course was adapted from a series of lectures on the history of Western philosophy given by Dr. Leonard Peikoff to fans of Ayn Rand in the early 1970s.

This course, originally given by Leonard Peikoff in 1997, teaches you the method of learning Objectivism's principles that Ayn Rand used to discover them - the only method (in Rand's words) of discovering and validating principles in any field: induction.

This is Ayn Rand’s flagship talk on capitalism. In this 1967 lecture, Rand gives an in-depth explanation of what capitalism is, why it is often misunderstood, and why it is the only social system consonant with man’s nature.

This course is an in-depth treatment of three important issues in Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy: the virtue of justice, the evil of the initiation of physical force, and the virtue of independence.

This free 4 hour course covers the book Anthem from both a literary and a philosophical perspective. In the first lecture, instructor Keith Lockitch gives a brief bio Ayn Rand and what let up to her writing the novel Anthem.

Topics include: background material on Rand and the era in which she wrote the novel; an overview of the story; an analysis of the principal characters; detailed discussion of the main theme and a number of related sub-themes.

This course will answer the following questions. What is philosophy? Why and how is it relevant to my life?

Although Marxism as a political system has now been widely repudiated, it remains an intellectual force in the universities. These classes examine Marxism as a secular version of the Judeo-Christian redemption saga.

We the Living is Rand’s first and least well-known novel. It is the passionate story of a young woman, Kira Argounova, who is solemnly dedicated to living her life.