Journals of Ayn Rand Science

Journals of Ayn Rand ScienceBy Ayn Rand Edited by David Harriman Foreword by Leonard Peikoff Ayn Rand was an endless fount of brilliantly original ideas. This book is a collection of her exploratory (and occasionally final) thoughts, from 1927 through the 1960s, on a variety of subjects. Journals includes her work on a movie she planned to write about the atomic bomb projecton The Moral Basis of Individualism, her first attempt at a systematic, non fiction presentation of her

Peikoff addresses such topics as: why so many Objectivists are prudish

philosopher Leonard Peikoff relates the ideas on which America was founded to the dominant ideological trends in modern American culture

pronouns without clear antecedents

But if we let such moments or opportunities slip by

zealously carrying on its campaign of sacrificing progress to primitivism

Letters to Isabel Paterson

affectionate

They promote the "Great Books" of the Western tradition

Cultural Update

Speaking extemporaneously from just a few handwritten notes

Drawing on Objectivist epistemology

and the idea of “owing a debt to society