Additional Web Sites

The Ayn Rand Lexicon

Through a special arrangement with the publisher, the editor and the Estate of Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Institute has received permission to present The Ayn Rand Lexicon—now available in its entirety, free of charge, to Web visitors. Edited by Harry Binswanger, and with an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, this book presents all of the key ideas of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, in an encyclopedic reference.

Ayn Rand Education

A resource for educators on Ayn Rand’s novels. The site features information about Ayn Rand’s works and ideas, as well as sample lesson plans and teaching materials.

Ayn Rand Novels

This resource is designed to provide students with important information about Ayn Rand and her works. The site is a helpful tool for students who want a better understanding of the novels—or for anyone else who is a fan of Ayn Rand’s fiction.

Facets of Ayn Rand

What was Ayn Rand like as a person? What was the character and personality of one who could conceive such grand ideas, and present them so memorably and powerfully in novels like Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead? This Web Site offers the complete text of Facets of Ayn Rand, a memoir by Mary Ann and Charles Sures, two longtime friends of Ayn Rand.

The Objectivist Academic Center

The OAC is the first and only educational institution of its kind. The OAC offers a systematic program of instruction in the essentials of the philosophy of Objectivism and in the nature of objective thought and communication. Their mission is to help develop the intellectuals of tomorrow: the lecturers, teachers and writers who will uphold reason and objectivity in the culture.

Ayn Rand Centenary

Launched in 2005 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand’s birth, on February 2, 1905.

The Atlas Shrugged Initiative

A campaign by the Ayn Rand Institute to bring wider public attention to the novel and its ideas, and to further stimulate interest in Atlas Shrugged among intellectuals, students and educators.