How culture (a body of human knowledge) fundamentally determines the progress of any racial group, and in fact civilization. Also worth reading is Sowell’s Conquests and Cultures: An International History, Migrations And Cultures: A World View, and Ethnic America: A History.
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?
You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book.
You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy…why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction…why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph…why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill.
Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand’s most extensive statement of Objectivism—her groundbreaking philosophy—offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists.
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire defends capitalism as the world’s most moral and practical social system. This book is written for the rational mind, whether the reader is a professional intellectual or an intelligent layman. It makes the case for individual rights and freedom in terms intelligible to all rational men.
‘It was a pleasure to burn.’
Montag is a fireman. His job is not to put out fires but to start them in order to burn books and the houses that hide them. Enter a bleak world in the, not too near future, where the government destroys offensive, politically incorrect books.
A play based on the story of young Helen Keller – blind, deaf, and mute since infancy- who is unable to communicate – and her teacher Annie Sullivan’s persistence to teach her how to do so.
“Extremists among professional educationists view an interest in intellectual, scientific, or scholarly matters as a positive liability in a public school teacher…an ever-present menace to a curriculum that enthrones anti-intellectualism.”
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“Across the educational world today stretches an iron curtain which the professional educationists are busily fashioning. Behind it, in slave-labor camps, are the classroom teachers, whose only hope of rescue is from without. On the hither side lies the free world of science and learning, menaced but not yet conquered. A division into two educational worlds is the great danger that faces us today. American intellectual life is threatened because the first twelve years of formal schooling in the United States are falling more and more completely under the policy-making control of a new breed of educator who has no real place in—who does not respect and who is not respected by—the world of scientists, scholars, and professional men.”
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“To make himself truly free, a man must break the intellectual chains that keep him a serf by binding him to his parish, by binding him to his narrow workaday tasks, by binding him to accept the authority of those placed over him in matters temporal and spiritual. A liberal education frees a man by enlarging and disciplining his powers. He is no longer bound to his parish, because education makes him spiritually a citizen of all places and all times. His workaday tasks no longer subdue his mind to their narrow demands, for he is large enough to cope with them and with the great intellectual tasks of a free man as well. He is no longer obliged to accept blindly the authority of those above him, for they are above him no longer. In the things of the mind he is their peer, and he can decide for himself, on as good ground as they, the great human issues that confront him.”
According to Bestor “by misrepresenting and undervaluing liberal education,” progressive education has “contributed … to the growth of anti-intellectualist hysteria that threatens not merely the schools but freedom itself.”
After a decade away from the public eye, a wave of violence in Gotham City brings Batman out of retirement.
The story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite…of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his enemy…and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand dramatizes one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
Most people have no idea what the United States represents. Ayn Rand did grasp America’s political essence down to its roots. Seventy-two years in the making, this book illuminates why the United States is “the only moral country in the history of the world.”
“Kidnapped from his California home and sold to prospectors embarked for the Yukon Gold Rush, Buck, a pampered house dog who has known comfort all of his life, finds himself thrust into a brutal world of cruel human masters, savage fellow sled-dogs, and an unforgiving wilderness full of hardship and misery. In the wilds, Buck earns the love of a man as rugged as he is, and he reacquaints himself with his true animal nature, a noble heritage passed down through tens of thousands of years of his kind’s survival.”