Ayn Rand knew that she was challenging philosophical ideas entrenched for 2,000 years. She understood that victory would take a long-term intellectual battle. The Founding Fathers, she wrote in 1960, were America’s first and so far only intellectuals. Victory would require a new crop of intellectuals, willing to rethink the subject of philosophy and to fight for a better culture.

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Ayn Rand knew that she was challenging philosophical ideas entrenched for 2,000 years. She understood that victory would take a long-term intellectual battle. The Founding Fathers, she wrote in 1960, were America’s first and so far only intellectuals. Victory would require a new crop of intellectuals, willing to rethink the subject of philosophy and to fight for a better culture.

Fifty years later, how goes the battle?

What has been accomplished so far? What do we still need to learn? What kind of movement will Objectivism have to become in order to reform the world? What will be required of academics, of intellectuals, of Objectivists in general? What particular internal and external challenges do we face and what must we do to overcome them?

In this talk, Yaron Brook will share his latest thinking on what will be required if we are ultimately to succeed at creating a culture dominated by the ideals of reason and individualism.
This event is now available as part of OCON's LIVESTREAM Package: http://objectivistconferences.com/ocon2011/index.php?pagename=general