Recommended links
Business
BB&T
"BB&T Corporation, headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C., is a
fast growing, highly profitable financial holding company with $78.2 billion
in assets. Its bank subsidiaries operate more than 1,100 branch offices in
the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Maryland,
Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, Florida and Washington, D.C. BB&T ranks No. 2
in market share in North Carolina, No. 3 in South Carolina, No. 4 in
Virginia, No. 1 in West Virginia, No. 6 in Georgia, No. 7 in Maryland, No. 3
in Kentucky and No. 5 in Washington, D.C." (accurate as of Sept. 30, 2002)
John Allison, CEO and Chairman of BB&T, has
explicitly incorporated the principles of Objectivism into its management --
an illustration of the fact that the (properly) moral and the practical go
hand in hand.
University/College Clubs
ARI's
Campus Club pages
The Ayn Rand Institute maintains a database of
college and high school clubs for students interested in studying
Objectivism.
The
College of New Jersey Ayn Rand Society
This is the school of Objectivist intellectual
and Aristotelean scholar Allan Gotthelf.
Organizations
The Ayn Rand Institute
The #1 force in our culture today for spreading the ideas of
Objectivism.
Americans for Free Choice in
Medicine
Working to reverse the invasion of socialized medicine
into American life.
The Ayn Rand Society
A professional society associated with the American
Philosophical Association. Its aim is to foster the scholarly study by philosophers of the
philosophical thought and writings of Ayn Rand.
The Association for Objective Law
"The Association for Objective Law is an
organization formed in 1988 to advance Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, as the
basis of a proper legal system."
Art
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
Website for the beautiful, Academy Award nominated,
biographical film of Ayn Rand's life, produced by Michael Paxton. A must-see for any Ayn
Rand fan. The companion book can be
ordered here.
Quent Cordair art gallery
Beautiful art for sale with lots of
good pictures.
Linda Mann art gallery
"In my paintings, I try to make the act of
seeing exciting." The site offers reproductions of the artist's extraordinary
still life paintings.
Theo van Oostrom fine art
"Romantic realism at its finest."
Michael Wilkinson sculpture
Beautiful sculptures in bronze and acrylic.
Carol Gerten Presents Fine
Art
Over 6000 lovingly scanned images of fine art
from around the world. You won't regret visiting.
Nick
Gaetano
Other work by the artist of the
superbly done 1999 Ayn Rand postage stamp.
Dismuke's
Virtual Talking Machine -- Music with an Ayn Rand connection
Digitized music from the early 20th century that Ayn
Rand enjoyed enormously (her "tiddlywink music".) While not necessarily the same
exact recordings, they're the same titles.
Forgotten Delights
Diane Durante's site on good art.
Education
FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education)
"FIRE is a
nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty,
religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process,
and academic freedom on our nation's campuses."
Strongbrains.com
A site devoted to self study about great
cultures of the past, especially Ancient Greece, with contributions from
John Lewis, professor of classics.
Marva Collins
Marva Collins is the remarkable teacher who made
national headlines with her private school in a Chicago ghetto after demonstrating (again)
that children are vastly more capable than the evil public schools claim. The book that
covers her remarkable history and results is Marva
Collins' Way. Also currently available is Ordinary
Children, Extraordinary Teachers.
Jaime Escalante
The author of the inspiring book (also made into an
excellent movie) titled
Stand and Deliver, he is another dedicated teacher who showed that
supposed "losers" in a Hispanic high school could achieve great heights if they
put their minds to it. An engineer who turned to teaching, he was told by a typically
dull-witted, moribund public school administration that the students would be hard pressed
to learn algebra. He ended up teaching a class in advanced calculus and the students were
among the highest scoring in California on a standardized test. Stand and Deliver is
unfortunately out of print, but Escalante:
The Best Teacher in America, is currently available. (I haven't
read it yet.)
Gail Paquette's
Homeschooling Site
American public schools are a disaster, wasting billions of
dollars while inflicting thousands of incompetent teachers on American children. Many
parents are turning to home schooling as an alternative to government incompetence and
brainwashing.
The Robinson (Homeschooling)
Curriculum
This appears to be a
useful and comparatively very inexpensive resource for homeschoolers. It
offers 22 CD-ROMs for $195, containing about 120,000 pages of information,
largely from older sources (this can be a real virtue considering the
politicization and watered-down tenor of modern texts.)
Printed Publications
The Intellectual Activist
A monthly publication studying current events and
other issues from the Objectivist perspective.
Op-Eds
ARI's Medialink
A collection of monthly publication studying current events and
other issues from the Objectivist perspective.
Talk Radio
PRODOS.com
Prodos is a popular internet radio host in Australia,
bringing the voice of reason to "down under" and all over the net.
Check out his web page to read
about his wide ranging pursuit of values.
The Rational Basis
of Happiness
Dr. Ellen Kenner broadcasts her radio show every Saturday from 12-1
p.m. EST. Dr. Kenner is a genuinely rational and benevolent psychologist (unlike
"Dr. Laura" whose doctorate is not in psychology and who is neither benevolent
nor a promoter of reason.) Available live on the internet or with a currently free archive
of the last show.
Objectivist Intellectuals
Dr. Leonard
Peikoff
A student for 30 years of the originator of the
philosophy of Objectivism, Ayn Rand, his major work includes a long career
of lecturing on the philosophy, and the first completely systematized
presentation of Objectivism, in the book Objectivism: The
Philosophy of Ayn Rand, as well as a revolutionary method of
analyzing history in his book The Ominous Parallels.
Harry Binswanger
Dr. Binswanger is a foremost Objectivist
intellectual. Find out about his moderated, subscription email list here
and sign up for a free 1 month trial.
Andrew
Bernstein
Dr. Bernstein is professor of philosophy and,
recently, a published novelist (Heart of a Pagan). His dynamic
lecturing style and lively personality are an inspiration to his students.
Glenn Woiceshyn's Home Page
An up-and-coming editorialist acting as a voice of
reason in Canadian and other newspapers.
