Panel Discussion on Expanded Edition of Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” (MP3 download) Leonard Peikoff at the Ford Hall Forum

Panel Discussion on Expanded Edition of Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” (MP3 download) Leonard Peikoff at the Ford Hall ForumBy Shoshana Milgram, Onkar Ghate and Robert Mayhew Shoshana Milgram, Robert Mayhew and Onkar Ghate discuss the chapters they have written for the forthcoming expanded edition of Essays on Ayn Rands We the Living, edited by Dr. Mayhew. Dr. Milgram considers Ayn Rands studies in philosophy and her references, in We the Living and her later writing, to her courses and textbooks. Dr. Milgram presents a contrast between what Ayn Rand was taught at college,

"They are moralists in the most profound sense of the word

Both of them rose very high

Ronald Reagan

factual terms

Self-interest and passing moral judgment

Doesn’t Life Require Compromise

subordinate clauses

that traces a tight arc from Leo Strauss through Irving Kristol to the daily travails of Washington politics

The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy by Leonard Peikoff

the “spiritual” aspect of self-interest

Topics explored in depth include the history behind the novel's creation

Part 5: Additional Resources