The Voice of Reason
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Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand's life, are gathered in book form for the first time. Alongside them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff's epilogue, "My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir," which answers the question "What was Ayn Rand really like?"
Important reading for all thinking individuals, Rand's later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity.
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Introductionby Leonard Peikoff Part One: Philosophy 1. Introducing Objectivism 2. Review of Aristotle by John Herman Randall, Jr. 3. To Young Scientists 4. Who Is the Final Authority in Ethics? 5. The Psychology of Psychologizing 6. Altruism as Appeasement 7. The Question of Scholarships 8. Of Living Death 9. Religion vs. America - by Leonard Peikoff Part Two: Culture 10. The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age 11. Our Cultural Value-Deprivation 12. Global Balkanization 13. How to Read (and Not to Write) 14. The Lessons of Vietnam 15. The Sanction of the Victims 16. Through Your Most Grievous Fault 17. Apollo 11 18. Epitaph for a Culture 19. Assault from the Ivory Tower: The Professors' War Against America - by Leonard Peikoff 20. The American School: Why Johnny Can't Think - by Leonard Peikoff Part Three: Politics 21. Representation Without Authorization 22. To Dream the Noncommercial Dream 23. Tax Credits for Education 24. Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason 25. The Pull Peddlers 26. About a Woman President 27. The Inverted Moral Priorities 28. Hunger and Freedom 29. How Not to Fight Against Socialized Medicine 30. Medicine: The Death of a Profession - by Leonard Peikoff 31. Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty - by Peter Schwartz Epilogue: My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir - by Leonard Peikoff
