Ayn Rand Interview with Tom Snyder (1979)

#aynrandinterview #tomsnyder #aynrand The Russia born writer-philosopher Ayn Rand is guest on 'The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder' during this July 3, 1979 interview, newly uploaded for 2021. Rand discusses her overview of objectivism; how objectivism differs from religious dogma; the importance of man's reason as his basic means of survival; the immorality of acting upon whims/emotions; the virtue of rationality; Rand's childhood recollections and being unchallenged by her school's curriculum; writing screenplays and novels during class as a child; her claim that she has been an objectivist since the age of two years old and that she has not changed her convictions since; religion as philosophy; her lack of fear of death; her feeling that America is being destroyed by universities preaching collectivism, mysticism, and altruism rather than American ideals of individualism and capitalism; her criticism of President Jimmy Carter; German philosopher Immanuel Kant as the ruling philoso