Censorship: Local and Express (MP3 download) Foreign Policy and Terrorism

Censorship: Local and Express (MP3 download) Foreign Policy and TerrorismBy Ayn Rand In this 1973 talk, Ayn Rand illustrates the role of philosphy in politics and law by analyzing the ideas that led to the Supreme Courts decisions that year in five obscenity cases. Arguing that those decisions establish[ed] the legal and intellectual base of censorship in America, Rand warns that the philosophic ideas underlying the decisions are leading to increased government control over every aspect of peoples lives. Rand contends that

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Leonard Peikoff visited Ayn Rand in her home

that love is blind and impervious to the power of philosophy

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This lecture was recorded at the Objectivist Summer Conference 2008 in Newport Beach

but are an advanced "chewing" of its ideas

Lecture two details the more political schism created by Henry VIII and his descendants in England

The government’s increasing control of the banking industry

are all here and destined to collide with the unbendable steel that is Roark