Curated Library

Below is a selection of readings that is not meant to be exhaustive. These works are offered as background only, and listing a title here does not imply that every idea in it agrees with the Objectivist philosophy or with the Anthemism approach. In particular, some of these promote anarchism, communism, and socialism, which Objectivism emphatically opposes.

Founding of a State

Objectivist

  • To Begin the World Over Again (2024) — by Alex Bleier and Kevin Osborne Kindle
Articles
  • How to Start Your Own Country — Erwin S. Strauss Amazon
  • The Hawksbill Creek Agreement — Sir Hugh Wooding CBE et al. Amazon
  • Vonu: The Search for Personal Freedom — El Rayo et al. Kindle
  • The Network State — Balaji Srinivasan Kindle
  • Startup States — Julien A. Starr PDF
  • Your Next Government? — Tom W. Bell Amazon
  • Free Private Cities — Titus Gebel Amazon
Articles

Zionism

Russia

  • The Russian Revolutions of 1917 — John Shelton Curtiss Amazon

Early America

Objectivism

Books

  • For the New Intellectual — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • The Virtue of Selfishness — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • The Return of the Primitive — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • Ayn Rand Letter — Ayn Rand Amazon
  • The Letters of Ayn Rand — ed. Michael Berliner Amazon
  • Ayn Rand Answers — ed. Robert Mayhew Amazon
  • The Tyranny of Need — Peter Schwartz Amazon
  • Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty — Peter Schwartz ARI eStore
  • The Objectivist Forum (all issues) — HB Letter
  • Why the Right to Abortion Is Sacrosanct — Ben Bayer Amazon

Essays

  • Ayn Rand Speaks — introduction and resources Essay
  • Libertarianism vs. Liberty — Peter Schwartz HuffPost
  • Sorry Libertarian Anarchists, Capitalism Requires Government — Harry Binswanger Forbes
  • For Open Immigration — Harry Binswanger HB Letter
  • Objectivism vs. Anarchism — Harry Binswanger HB Letter
  • Abortion Rights — Ben Bayer New Ideal

Periodicals

Podcasts and video

Economics and related
  • Economics in One Lesson — Henry Hazlitt Kindle
  • The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure — John Allison Amazon
  • A Treatise on Political Economy (1803) — Jean-Baptiste Say Econlib
  • On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) — David Ricardo Econlib
  • Two Treatises of Government — John Locke Kindle
  • The Law — Frédéric Bastiat Kindle

Fiction

Books

  • Anthem — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • We the Living — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe Kindle
  • Daniel Deronda — George Eliot Kindle
  • Lord of the Flies — William Golding Kindle
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A. Heinlein Kindle
  • Les Misérables — Victor Hugo Kindle
  • Brave New World — Aldous Huxley Kindle
  • The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin Kindle
  • 1984 — George Orwell Kindle
  • The Prometheus Connection — Kevin Osborne Kindle
  • The Prometheus Frontier — Kevin Osborne Kindle
  • Hard to Be a God — Strugatsky Amazon

Short Stories

  • Heart of the Wilderness — Alexander Grin Kindle

Essays

  • Anthem in the Context of Related Literary Works — New Ideal

Film

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