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...newly revived group, the Harvard Objectivity Club holds weekly meetings in Lamont library to discuss writing of Objectivist thinkers like Rand and Leonard Petkoff...
According to Tal D. Ben Shachar '96 who revived the club members will view and discuss video lectures given by Objectivist scholars from across the country topics will range from philosophy to fiction writing psychology and economics, he said...
...discussion before a crowd of more than 400 at an Institute of Politics Forum quickly turned into a debate over the legitimacy of the Objectivist conception of selfishness as an ideal guide for human behavior...
...which people act only to further their own private interests. Greenspan, who was a friend of Rand's until her death in 1982, credits the writer with teaching him that "capitalism is not only practical and efficient but also moral." During the 1960s, as a contributor to the Objectivist, Rand's monthly journal, Greenspan expounded some extreme economic views. "The welfare state," Greenspan wrote, "is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of society...
...Objectivist Club, which began last spring, sponsored Schwartz's speech and will present a speech on the root of terrorism in two weeks by Northrop Beuchen, Professor of Economics at St. John's University...