Prometheus Foundation News

In celebration of the birthday of Ayn Rand, the Ayn Rand Center Europe has created this lovely video:https://www.facebook.com/aynrandcentereurope/videos/4036325153078592 Share it if you like, and have a wonderfully selfish Randsday!

Ayn Rand was born on February 2, 1905. She is credited with discovering and developing the “virtue of selfishness.” Rand saw this idea both as the key to personal happiness and as the moral foundation of a free society. And she was right! If you want to live your life fully and achieve the greatest happiness...

The always thoughtful and fabulous, Lisa VanDamme, has kicked off 2021 with a new Read With Me course. This is how Lisa describes it: "This year, I am leading a group of readers in a chapter-a-day reading of Victor Hugo’s great masterpiece Les Misérables. It is a commitment of about fifteen minutes a day that brings...

Prometheus Foundation wishes all our parthers and friends a happy new year!If you have ideas for advancing Objectivism, and if you are the kind of person who follows through and gets things done, Prometheus Foundation wants to hear from you. Learn more about whom and what we fund here, or apply for funding here. If...

Prometheus Foundation Executive Director, Craig Biddle, spoke to a great crowd of active minded students at LibertyCon in Madri just before the World went into Covid lockdown. The topic was the ever relevant "Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights."If you'd like to read Craig's essay, "Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights: The Moral...

C. Bradley Thompson - author, professor and lecturer - has launched a new blog called The Redneck Intellectual. Thompson is a Professor of Political Science at Clemson University, where he teaches political philosophy. He is also the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study Capitalism and the founder...

Ayn Rand Centre UK has launched a new podcast with the formidable James S. Valliant as it's host. The title of this podcast is "Philosophy and Sense of Life". In The Romantic Manifesto, Ayn Rand wrote:“A sense of life is a pre-conceptual equivalent of metaphysics, an emotional, subconsciously integrated appraisal of...

Ayn Rand Center Europe is receiving large numbers of applications for their John Galt Schools: - 252 in Georgia;- 219 in Spain (incl. Latin American applications);- 58 in Turkey;- 86 in Albania; - 82 in Bosnia & Hercegovina; and - 70 in Romania.The main goal of the 8-week long John Galt...

Since September this year, actor and Objectivist, Mark Pellegrino, has been appearing on the Ayn Rand Center UK podcast called The Daily Objective.Mark is on every Monday and Thursday, where he discusses and applies Objectivism to various hot topics.Here's a snippet of one of these shows:...