Paid summer internship at the Ayn Rand Institute

The Ayn Rand Institute’s new summer internship program combines paid office work with seminar-style courses on various topics from Ayn Rand’s corpus and their application to questions surrounding individual rights.

Topics will include, but are not limited to: an overview of Ayn Rand’s ideas; principles necessary for a free society; applications of Ayn Rand’s philosophy to current events. The internship also provides for one-on-one mentoring with ARI intellectuals.

Program Overview:

1. Paid internship $500 travel stipend 
2. Office experience 
3. Week-long seminar sessions on various topics 
4. Automatic acceptance to the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism’s annual undergraduate conference (details here)

This internship opportunity is ideal for talented students who intend to pursue an academic career and are interested in the philosophical foundations of freedom and individual rights—and particularly Ayn Rand’s views on these questions.

The program runs from June 9-July 1 2010 at ARI’s offices in Irvine, California, and we encourage students to apply early, as the process is competitive.

Please visit the internship web page for more details and the online application. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2010.

For more information about ARI's Academic Programs, please visit http://www.objectivistacademiccenter.org/.