Take a look at this latest project in Spain. Objectivismo.org is a Spanish language website focused upon bringing the work and ideas of Ayn Rand to a wider audience in Latin America.  The website offers articles and videos covering current  issues, pop culture, and the ideas of Objectivism. Take a look, and spread the word [...]

This week the first portion of Ayn Rand’s book, Atlas Shrugged was published in Bulgarian, the second and third portions will be published by the end of this year.This is the 5th book by Rand that his been translated and published into Bulgarian, others include, The Fountainhead, Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, For the New [...]

In the first decades of the 20th century, Argentina was one of the leading countries in the world. Thanks to the vision of Juan Bautista Alberdi the country welcomed millions of immigrants - in 1930, foreigners represented 30% of the population. The newcomers began to work and create wealth and opportunities in a country with [...]

One of the events organized by the Malaysian Think Tank through the  2008 Atlas Shrugged Grant program was an academic symposium. The main goal of the symposium was to investigate the common grounds of ideas between Atlas Shrugged and Islam with 7 academics and officials from various institutions.
Here are some of the results:

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One year ago 4 different organizations received a generous grant of $10,000 to fund projects that would spread the ideas of Ayn Rand ’s novel Atlas Shrugged. Among the winners of the 2008 Atlas Shrugged Grants was the Hayek Foundation in Slovakia.
The institute invested the grant in a high school project by creating a model [...]

At Atlas we’ve learned over the years that some of the most valuable contributions one can make to an organization is that of free market books and literature . The International Policy Network understands this as well, and they have put together a CD called Ideas for a Free Society. This CD included texts from [...]

Over the weekend two articles published in the New York Times highlights the work of some good friends of Atlas. The first, the article “Give BB&T Liberty, not a Bailout” is a profile of John Allison, who was the keynote speaker for Atlas’s Liberty Forum in Philadelphia in 2007. BB&T bank is also the main [...]

As a part of Fundacion Global’s Atlas Shrugged program they’ve created an excellent video lauding the entrepreneurial spirit of Argentines in years past as well as the importance of the individual; ideals espoused in the book Atlas Shrugged. Below you can see the video in English, but it was originally produced in Spanish.

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To the list that includes Gödel’s incompleteness theorem and the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity, we can now add Rand’s Rule: There is an inverse relationship between economic growth in general, and the sales of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
The ‘Rand Resurgence’ has been the topic of several recent media reports (see here and here), and reflects [...]

Creativity in the dissemination of ideas is always a desirable goal for the think tanks in our movement. Atlas Fisher Venture Grant winner, Fundacion Hayek in Argentina recently created a fascinating blog. Staff members of the foundation, including the president Ricardo Rojas, have instigated interactive discussion’s‚ on issues such as the “Role of the ego [...]