Russell's ebook Library

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand
This collection of 26 essays constitutes a challenging look at modern society. The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radical...

For the New Intellectual
Ayn Rand
This is Ayne Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosphical doctrince of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectua...

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
Ayn Rand
Denies that human senses cannot be trusted, that logic is arbitrary, and that concepts have no basis in reality and discusses universals

Journals of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From 'Journals of Ayn Rand,' we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosop...

Philosophy: Who Needs It
Ayn Rand
This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philo...

Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
Ayn Rand and Peter Schwartz
In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion, " ...

The Virtue of Selfishness
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand here sets for the the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life - the life proper to a rational being - as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as imcompatible with man's nature, with the creative req...

The Voice of Reason
Ayn Rand
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 different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Maryli...