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.
The Birth of Monotheistic Religion – Aristotle Versus Religion (4 of 7)
Alexander, writes historian Paul Johnson, “cracked the Persian Empire like a rotten egg.”20 Following Alexander’s conquest of Persia, explains Durant, “Still enterprising and alert, the Greeks moved by hundreds of thousands into Asia and Egypt. . . .”21 They...
The Seminal Intellectual Achievements of Aristotle – Aristotle Versus Religion (3 of 7)
Whereas Socrates taught mankind the germ of a method for determining values, Aristotle broadened and deepened that method as a means to pursue knowledge in any field. Aristotle is the fountainhead of the field of logic. Among other things, he formulated the rules for...
The Greeks Give Birth to Western Civilization – Aristotle Versus Religion (2 of 7)
What did the Greeks contribute to human life? As the eminent historian Will Durant wrote, “there is hardly anything secular in our culture that does not come from Greece. Schools, gymnasiums, arithmetic, geometry, history . . . physics, biology . . . poetry, music,...