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Two hundred and fifty years ago, America’s Founding Fathers established what would become—in Ayn Rand’s words—“The first society in history . . . led, dominated and created by the Producers,” those who use their minds to create the values on which human life depends. Unshackled from the purveyors of faith and force, they created a land of unparalleled prosperity.
Join us in New Orleans, the city where Ayn Rand delivered her final public lecture, for a celebration and examination of America, the producers who built it, and why its future depends, as Rand put it in that lecture, on such producers acquiring “philosophical self-defense and self-esteem.”
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, America’s Founding Fathers established what would become—in Ayn Rand’s words—“The first society in history . . . led, dominated and created by the Producers,” those who use their minds to create the values on which human life depends. Unshackled from the purveyors of faith and force, they created a land of unparalleled prosperity.
Join us in New Orleans, the city where Ayn Rand delivered her final public lecture, for a celebration and examination of America, the producers who built it, and why its future depends, as Rand put it in that lecture, on such producers acquiring “philosophical self-defense and self-esteem.”
Register here » events.aynrand.org/ocon
Image credits:
Bentley Library at the University of Michigan
Image / Designed by John Binns via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by Will Schlitzer via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by Marshal Templeton via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by Svenska Biografteatern via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by Granger via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by Talmage, T. De Witt via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by Julio Strozza via Wikimedia Commons
Image / American Locomotive Company via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons
Image / United States Information Agency via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Ford Motor Company via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by F. A. Hubold via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by Bernard Spragg via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by Alon Kobets via Wikimedia Commons
Image / Designed by Nuwanhaha via Envato Elements
Image / Designed by CastOfThousands via Envato Elements
Image / Designed by ManuMata via Envato Elements
Image / Designed by Thomas O'Halloran via Library of Congress.
Image / Designed by John Trumbull via Washington Post
Subscribe to ARI’s YouTube channel to make sure you never miss a video:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AynRandInstitute
Download or stream free courses on Ayn Rand’s works and ideas with the Ayn Rand Institute app:
– App Store itunes.apple.com/us/app/ayn-rand-university/id1452535178?mt=8
– Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aynrandu
ARI is funded by donor contributions. You can support our work by becoming an ARI Member or making a one-time contribution: ari.aynrand.org/donate
Explore these ideas further! ARI's online publication, New Ideal, explores pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism: newideal.aynrand.org
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