• • • Understanding Objectivism: A Guide to Learning Ayn Rand’s Philosophy 
Matt O’Grady, Canadian Business Ayn Rand Institute  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Egoism  |Leonard Peikoff  |Image  | Seizing on the uptick in interest in Rand, New American Library has recently published a series of edited lectures by Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, to help expand our understanding of objectivism. Peikoff also helpfully answers the burning pop-culture question: If the movie E.T. is anti-adult and anti-science—as, by objectivist philosophy, it clearly is—does that make it inherently evil and irrational?   Published: 2012-04-02