Curated Library

Below is a curated selection of readings chosen for their relevance to Anthemism; it 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. Kindle
  • Vonu: The Search for Personal Freedom — El Rayo et al. Kindle
  • The Network State — Balaji Srinivasan Kindle
  • Startup States — Julien A. Starr Read Online, PDF
  • Your Next Government?: From the Nation State to Stateless Nations — Tom W. Bell Amazon
  • Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You — Titus Gebel Amazon
Articles
  • The Nation Builders’ Struggle — John Snare Reason (1972)
  • Atlas Mugged: How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart — Harry Cheadle VICE, Sept. 22, 2014
  • The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down — The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2024
  • Dubai of the Caribbean — The New York Times, Feb. 26, 2026
  • Ultra-Stable Jurisdictions — John McCone Journal of Special Jurisdictions (2025)

Zionism

Russia

  • The Russian Revolutions of 1917 — John Shelton Curtiss Amazon

American History

Objectivism

Books

  • For the New Intellectual — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • The Virtue of Selfishness — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal — 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

Essays

  • Ayn Rand Speaks — interviews, recordings, bibliographies, and other resources Essay
  • Libertarianism vs. Liberty — Peter Schwartz HuffPost
  • Sorry Libertarian Anarchists, Capitalism Requires Government — Harry Binswanger Forbes

Periodicals

Podcasts and Video Recordings

  • Ayn Rand Institute — YouTube
  • The Yaron Brook Show — Yaron Brook YouTube
  • HB TV — Harry Binswanger YouTube

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 Read Online, Project Gutenberg, Kindle
  • Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • We the Living — Ayn Rand Kindle
  • The Island of Crimea — Vasily Aksyonov Amazon
  • Foundation — Isaac Asimov Kindle
  • The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood Kindle
  • The Shipwreck Island — Alexander Belyaev Kindle
  • Planet of the Apes — Pierre Boulle Kindle
  • The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury 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
  • Dune — Frank Herbert Kindle
  • Les Misérables — Victor Hugo Kindle
  • Brave New World — Aldous Huxley Kindle
  • Mowgli (The Jungle Book) — Rudyard Kipling Kindle
  • The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin Kindle
  • 1984 — George Orwell Kindle
  • The Prometheus Frontier — Kevin Osborne Kindle
  • Hard to Be a God — Strugatsky Amazon
  • Looking for Hugh — Leon Weinstein Kindle
  • The Time Machine — H. G. Wells Kindle

Short Stories

  • The Lottery — Shirley Jackson Kindle
  • Heart of the Wilderness — Alexander Grin Kindle

Essays

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

Film

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