Dr. Andrew Bernstein lectures around the country—and internationally—on Ayn Rand’s best selling novels Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We The Living and Anthem, and on her revolutionary philosophy for living on earth: Objectivism.
The Capitalist Manifesto
The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire
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.
Why Western Civilization is Worth Defending with Professor Andrew Bernstein
Michael Liebowitz and I discuss Western Civilization. We acknowledge its flaws but emphasize its enormous life-giving achievements for people all over the world and the need to defend it against venomous contemporary assaults. This is both an entertaining and…
The Case Against Slavery Reparations
Good news: I completed an essay titled: “The Case Against Slavery Reparations.” It is a hard-hitting defense of individual rights against the arrant collectivism of the assertion that individual members of a given race are morally responsible for the crimes of their…
Joseph Conrad’s Exquisitely Brutal Novella, “Heart of Darkness”
I return to my favorite field of Literature, this time discussing Joseph Conrad’s exquisitely brutal novella, “Heart of Darkness”. The background for the story is the Congo Free State of King Leopold II of Belgium around the turn of the 20th century. Under the guise…