Thanks. ARI's list is somewhat topically and alphabetically ordered, which some people might prefer (if you're looking for a specific item, for example).

I put it together my way because I wanted it in chronological order, the way it actually happened -- especially since there is so much material there, and since so many of the question and answer sessions are included. I'm glad others like it and I'm gratified by the comments, but I did it not because I thought the ARI page sucked, but because I wanted it organized the way I wanted to see it. And yes, I hope my annotations do help.

And I still think it's a pretty generous move on their part to have made so much of that stuff available.

Craig -- I appreciate the hell out of your helpfully dated and annotated list!

Maybe you can send it to ARI (altho' I imagine they're far too slow-witted, inept, and socially hostile to improve their library list in such a user-friendly manner).

Craigslist.

Everything that I've been able to check matches versions which were published during Ayn Rand's lifetime, in other words, prior to the founding of ARI.

I hope to god this stuff isn't overly censored and altered. It would be nice if for once in their wretched, loathsome, slimy existence The Ayn Rand Institute didn't perpetrate egregious fraud.

"The Left certainly observes the Jewishness of capitalism, if not the atheistic."

And the Right certainly observes the Jewishness of Marxism. Can't win really, can they?

I bought a paperback copy of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal in Alexandria, Egypt, but I never saw an Ayn Rand book in Moscow, nor did I meet anyone who'd read or even heard of her. They could use it.

There's a Sheraton and a T.G.I. Friday's, and one of the world's largest McDonald's, and an Apple Store, all right there on Tverskaya ulitsa. Leading straight to Red Square. And a Bentley dealership, within a block or two from the former KGB headquarters. But no Ayn Rand that I could see.

...Jewish hotspots in the US such as NYC, are Democratic, but I'm not enough of a scholar to see why. It may be that they see Democratic platforms such as religious freedom and general liberalism as being more important.

Jews have always been able to adapt for the purposes of survival, while maintaining influence. And NYC has always been the capital of realpolitik.

Still, I'll contend now that Rand suffers from racism. From Catholics, certainly. The Jews killed Jesus. Money changers in the Temple. All that bullshit. And since Catholicism is the mother religion, it flows through. Add in the Russian atheist, and you have the perfect storm.

Paul Ryan can do nothing else but reject her.

I've heard Rand herself described as a Communist, so perhaps there we are.

And I wonder is a certain racism is not involved here in the conservative rejection of her. Rand had a Russian accent and she was an atheist. The simple, conservative mind may align these two regardless of her support of capitalism

The Left certainly observes the Jewishness of capitalism, if not the atheistic.

But you can see this conflation of the Jew, the grasping capitalist Jew, and the atheist as being anathema to the faith-based raison of the conservative. It's double jeopardy.

This is absolutely fantastic, thanks very much for taking the time and the trouble to put this together. Much appreciated.

Thank you

Thanks for pointing this out and doing a good job of putting everything into perspective. "Faith and Force" was one of the first Rand essays that I read, even before I read the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. It didn't completely sink in at the time, but it laid the seeds. It is great to hear her deliver it in a speech. I didn't know that this existed.

Even more interesting for me is the Q&A session. Ayn Rand in her prime had a godlike intellect. She could answer questions and arguments with surgical precision. Her off the cuff verbal answers were better than most of us could accomplish in writing over the course of hours. As she got older she (understandably) got a little less precise and a little more irritable. None of those slight imperfections were present in the early 1960s.

Linz, Mark, Ross, thank you all for the kind words. This thing is not quite good enough.

Perhaps more in the next day or so. Jeez, something's got to be better than this.

...and well listed.

This is a great list.

Just to answer a few questions, reasonable and otherwise. Names and email addresses omitted to protect the daft.

1. Why chronological?

My response: Well, I'd always wanted to see it (that is, this stuff) presented it that way, and to read (or hear) and study it that way. I *wanted* it this way. But that option was never available before (well, not to me). Years after I'd discovered and read Ayn Rand, for example, I still hadn't been able to find, read, or hear "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern Word." Not anywhere. I'm no scholar myself, but I am the guy who proposed and conducted this interview, and I want to see certain presentations in the order they were created. For example, we have "there can be no unchosen obligations." Fine. But then I want to see subsequent remarks about subpoenas, jury duty, the metaphysical vs. the man-made, and more. And answers, if any.

2. The litigious types: in mentioning Apple, were you referring to The Beatles or to Steve Jobs?

Heh.

3. You ended a paragraph with "We had it tough." You wanted me/readers to be reminded of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, I think.

Of course I did. I love that sketch.

4. Do you really see this as generosity on the part of the Ayn Rand Estate?

Yes. Don't you?

5. Why'd you do this?

Well, because I could. And see my response to the first question. And also, because you didn't do it.

Extremely useful. I've blue-stickied it, and it can stay here for ever.