Ayn Rand Lecture 2026: A Rational Life with Madsen Pirie

Dr Madsen Pirie gives the Adam Smith Institute's annual Ayn Rand Lecture, on self-reliance and individual liberty.

The Adam Smith Institute's annual Ayn Rand Lecture is given by Dr Madsen Pirie, the Institute's co-founder and president, on the theme 'A Rational Life'. The published billing has him drawing on his own career and on Randian philosophy to discuss self-reliance, personal excellence and individual liberty. Free to attend. [The detail page's own URL misspells the lecture as 'annual-any-rand-lecture-2026'; the slug is reproduced verbatim as the source key.]