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      <title>From Sanders to the Trump White House: The Crusade to Control AI</title>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Mike Mazza discuss two major developments in the AI industry: Bernie Sanders’ proposal for an AI wealth fund and the White House’s order to block access to Anthropic’s newest models.



Topics include:




The Anthropic Ban



Fear-Mongering About Security



Fear-Mongering About Jobless Future



Is there “Collective Knowledge”?



Lack of Concern with Individual Rights




Resources: 




Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, “Marketing AI without Empowering Resentment”



Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, “Fear of Progress: The Quest to End Autonomous Driving”




This episode was recorded on June 16, 2026.]]></description>
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      <title>The Pope’s Screed Against Human Intelligence</title>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Connor O’Leary discuss Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical about AI.



Topics include:




Valid questions, backwards approach



Concerning near-universal acclaim



Dependence on religious morality



Faith-based moral concepts



Appealing to fear and resentment



Hostility to human intelligence



We need a rational morality




Resources: 




Ayn Rand, “Requiem for Man,” Capitalism the Unknown Ideal



Anthropic vs. Trump: The Moral Responsibility of Tech Companies, Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, March 12, 2026



Marketing AI Without Empowering Resentment, Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, April 23, 2026



Ben Bayer, How to Build a Secular Morality, New Ideal, June 10, 2026 (just came out yesterday)




This episode was recorded on June 5, 2026.



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      <title>OCON 2026: A Preview of 6 Talks</title>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Elan Journo talks with Ben Bayer, Robertas Bakula, Alex Silverman, Audra Hilse, Sam Weaver, and Keith Lockitch about their upcoming talks at OCON 2026 in New Orleans.



Speakers include:




Bayer: Ayn Rand on progress    



Bakula: antitrust is anti-production    



Silverman: metaphysics of productiveness



Hilse: publishing We the Living



Weaver: Milton’s Paradise Lost      



Lockitch: Descartes and Newton on the rainbow    ]]></description>
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      <title>Jeff Bezos Admirably Defends Wealth Creation</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153917864/</link>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:32:13 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Robertas Bakula and Onkar Ghate discuss Jeff Bezos' recent high-profile CNBC interview with Andrew Sorkin on wealth, attacks on billionaires, and government waste.



Topics include:




Bezos’ Admirable Mind



Trend of Villainizing Businessmen



The Zero-Sum Fallacy



The Incompetence of Government



Collectivist Defense of Profit



Inequality is not a bug



The Role of Intellectuals




Resources: 




Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand




This episode was recorded on May 28, 2026.



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      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153914918/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 13:41:27 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Tristan de Liège analyze Marc Andreesen’s recent controversial comments rejecting introspection.



Topics include:




What introspection really is



Introspection and success



Introspection and moral responsibility



Earned and unearned guilt




Resources: 




The Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on Introspection




This episode was recorded on May 13, 2026.



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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:57:42 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the war and subsequent negotiations with Iran, and Trump’s visit to China.



 Topics include:




The war’s shifting purpose



The Hormuz evasion



Whim over strategy



Evading Iran’s nature



Stalemate as defeat



Projecting weakness worldwide



Abandoning American ideals




This episode was recorded on May 20th.



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      <title>Trump’s Monument-Building vs. American Founding Ideas</title>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 12:36:11 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Sam Weaver and Ben Bayer discuss the significance of President Trump’s efforts to construct new government monuments and put his name and face on federal buildings and documents.



Topics Include:




Trump’s initiatives



Why symbols matter



Historical monument-building



America’s distinctive history



How Trump compares



Relation to Trump’s policies



Rand on monuments



Trump’s pursuit of prestige



Public response




Resources:




“The Monument Builders” in The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand



“Don’t Let It Go” in Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand



“The Anti-Intellectuality of Donald Trump” by Onkar Ghate



“One Small Step for Dictatorship” by Onkar Ghate




This episode was recorded on May 8, 2026.



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      <title>How Effective Is Ken Griffin’s Response to Zohran Mamdani?</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153883717/</link>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:58:17 -0400</pubDate>
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Podcast audio:







In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Onkar Ghate discuss Ken Griffin’s reaction to Zohran Mamdami's attack on his wealth and life, and the appropriate stance that individuals in Griffin's position should take against such attacks. 



Topics include:




Mamdani’s Attack on Ken Griffin



Real Threat to Griffin’s Life and Safety



Griffin’s Courageous Defense of the American Dream



Griffin’s Concession



Sanction of the Victim



Animal Farm is Pro-Socialism



Anthem and Atlas Shrugged as Better Alternatives



A Principled Stance vs. Martyrdom




Resources:




Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand



Anthem by Ayn Rand



The Sanction of the Victim by Ayn Rand




This episode was recorded on May 11, 2026.



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      <title>Bart Ehrman on the Christian Origins of Altruistic Morality</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153878107/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21301</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 13:01:24 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer interviews Professor Bart Ehrman about his new book on the Christian roots of altruist ethics.




Christian vs. pagan ethics



The true meaning of Christian “love”



Apocalyptic roots of Christian ethics



Are Christian ethics rational?



Ehrman’s work




Resources: 




Bart Ehrman, Love Thy Stranger: How Christianity Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West



Ben Bayer, “How Christianity Polluted the Moral Atmosphere of the West,” New Ideal, February 5, 2025.




This episode was recorded on April 22, 2026.]]></description>
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      <title>Why the Red/Blue Button Moral Dilemma is a Trap</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153867106/</link>
      <rawvoice:pid>153867106</rawvoice:pid>
      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21290</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:55:21 -0400</pubDate>
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Podcast audio:







In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Ben Bayer discuss the viral Red vs. Blue Button dilemma.



Topics include:




The Viral Dilemma



The Case for Red



The Case for Blue



The False Choice



Comparison to the Trolley Problem



Ayn Rand’s Alternative Approach to Morality




Resources:




“Ethics of Emergencies,” Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness 



“Why Today’s Ethics Offers No Real Guidance,” Ben Bayer, New Ideal, November 18, 2020



Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand



The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand




This episode was recorded on April 24, 2026.



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      <title>The Unconstitutional, Immoral Military Draft</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153850099/</link>
      <rawvoice:pid>153850099</rawvoice:pid>
      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21272</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:25:21 -0400</pubDate>
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Podcast audio:







In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Tristan de Liège discuss the military draft in light of recent changes to the Selective Service System.




Debating Selective Service System changes



Unconstitutionality of the draft



The immorality of the draft



The impracticality of the draft



Palantir’s endorsement of the draft




Resources: 




Against The Un-American Call for National Service, ARI Podcast



A Central Planner's Trojan Horse: The Technological Republic, ARI Podcast



Ayn Rand, entry on the Draft, Ayn Rand Lexicon 



Ayn Rand, “Wreckage of the Consensus” in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal




This episode was recorded on April 22, 2026.



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      <title>Why the New York Times  Justifies Theft and Tolerates Murder</title>
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      <rawvoice:pid>153847153</rawvoice:pid>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:53:13 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Robertas Bakula discuss the recent New York Times podcast justifying the “microlooting” of big corporations.




“Microlooting” and Macrolooting



Marxist rationalizations



Signs of nihilism



Anti-intellectual tribal signaling



Hypocrisy and altruism



Justifying murder




Resources: 




Profit without Apology: The Need to Stand Up for Business, Onkar Ghate and Don Watkins 



The Marxists’ Exploitation Myth, ARI Podcast, Feb 26, 2025



Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Who Normalized Political Violence?, ARI Podcast, Sept 12, 2025




This episode was recorded on April 27, 2026.  



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      <title>Marketing AI Without Empowering Resentment</title>
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      <rawvoice:pid>153831754</rawvoice:pid>
      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21245</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:17:47 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza, and Tristan de Liège discuss major publicity campaigns launched by AI companies to combat uncertainty and fear about the disruptive power of AI.




The AI PR problem



Valid marketing problems



Valid marketing solutions



Special problems re: misuse



The invalid inequality concern



Invalid regulatory concerns



Altruism as appeasement




Resources: 




Ayn Rand, “What is Capitalism?” in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal,  “The Age of Envy” in Return of the Primitive, and “Altruism as Appeasement” in The Voice of Reason. 



Threats to Regulate Artificial Intelligence, ARI Podcast, May 12, 2023



Anthropic vs. Trump: The Moral Responsibility of Tech Companies, ARI Podcast, 3/12/26



Don Watkins and Yaron Brook, Equal is Unfair




This episode was recorded on April 17, 2026



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      <title>What It Takes to Learn a Philosophy</title>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:00:21 -0400</pubDate>
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This talk by Mike Mazza was recorded live on July 3rd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and is available on the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. 



Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>What People Get Wrong About Evil and the Iran War</title>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21219</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:42:56 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss Ayn Rand’s view of evil as fundamentally impotent, and what it reveals about Soviet Russia, Iran, and the failures of American foreign policy.




The standard view of evil



Evil as impotent



Paradox of Soviet danger



Illusion of Soviet technology



Overstating Iran’s power



Altruism empowering evil




Resources: 




Ayn Rand, Lexicon entry on Evil and Sanction of the Victim



Ayn Rand, “Galt’s Speech” in For the New Intellectual



Ayn Rand, “Altruism as Appeasement” in The Voice of Reason



Ayn Rand, “The Anatomy of Compromise” in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal



Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo’s, Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11



Elan Journo, Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism




This episode was recorded on 04/10/2026.]]></description>
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      <title>Why Is Israel Blamed for the Iran War?</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153801008/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21209</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:35:40 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss recent conspiracism about Israel’s role in the Iran war.Topics include:




Facts conspiracists distort



Facts conspiracists evade



The conspiracist mentality     



An anti-conceptual culture



Decades of unprincipled foreign policy



Tribalism and conspiracism



Evading America’s deadly morality




Resources: 




Ayn Rand Lexicon entries on the anti-conceptual mentality, the arbitrary, and tribalism



Ayn Rand, “For the New Intellectual” in For the New Intellectual




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      <title>The Humiliating Iran Ceasefire Deal</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153798462/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21202</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:26:34 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss recent conspiracism about Israel’s role in the Iran war.




Facts conspiracists distort



Facts conspiracists evade



The conspiracist mentality     



An anti-conceptual culture



Decades of unprincipled foreign policy



Tribalism and conspiracism



Evading America’s deadly morality




Resources: 




Ayn Rand Lexicon entries on the anti-conceptual mentality, the arbitrary, and tribalism



Ayn Rand, “For the New Intellectual” in For the New Intellectual




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      <title>Artemis II Is Inspiring – but NASA Is Holding Back Space Exploration</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153784474/</link>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:19:31 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Agustina Vergara Cid and Mike Mazza discuss the launch of Artemis II and the future of space exploration.



Topics covered:




The cultural reaction the launch of Artemis II



Why it took 50 years to go back to lunar space



The reactions to the achievements of private space companies



How NASA is slowing down progress in space




Mentioned in the discussion were Mike Mazza’s articles “Freedom to Launch: How Deregulation Created a Space Renaissance,” “Space Renaissance: How Freedom Created Progress in the Space Industry,” and “NASA’s Plan to Impede Space Commercialization.”



This episode was recorded on April 2, 2026.



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      <title>Why Billionaires Don’t Owe California Anything</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153765217/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:36:56 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Robertas Bakula and Onkar Ghate discuss California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax proposal.




California’s budget and welfare crisis



Challenging the "fair share" narrative



Injustice of retroactive taxation



Productive ability vs. the welfare state



The role of business visionaries




This episode was recorded on March 19, 2026.



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      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153633953/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:30:48 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss recent developments in the Iran war.



Topics covered:




Intro



Moral vs. stated reasons for the war



The Trump administration’s arbitrariness



The government’s attacks on freedom at home



The risks in leaving the war early



The reaction of Trump’s base to the war



Our un-American foreign policy




This episode was recorded on March 20, 2026.]]></description>
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      <title>Rubio’s Mystical and Racist View of the West is Anti-Civilization</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/153193162/</link>
      <rawvoice:pid>153193162</rawvoice:pid>
      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21148</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:28:07 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Don Watkins and Sam Weaver discuss Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent speech at the Munich Security Conference and the tribal conception of Western civilization that he advocates.




Civilization as a project



Rubio’s superficial view



Christianity vs. civilization



Racist undertones



Nationalist false alternative




Resources: 




Ayn Rand, “Man’s Rights”



Ayn Rand, “Racism”



Elan Journo, “The Virulent Pull of Tribalism”



Onkar Ghate, “Finding Morality and Happiness Without God”




This episode was recorded on March 12, 2026.



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      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/152921054/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21117</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:32:40 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Mike Mazza discuss the recent standoff between Anthropic and the Defense Department over military use of AI technology, and the moral questions faced by those creating weapons of war.  




Anthropic’s reasoning



Authoritarian threats



Ayn Rand’s “To Young Scientists”



Moral sanction




Resources: 




Ayn Rand, “To Young Scientists”



Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on the sanction of the Victim



Ben Bayer, “Effective Altruism’s Faith-Based Sacrifice for the Future”




This episode was recorded on March 6, 2026. 



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      <title>America Responds to Decades of Iranian Aggression</title>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21076</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:49:49 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer interviews Elan Journo about the American and Israeli attack on Iran.  



Topics include:




The Institute’s Position on Iran;



Answering critics;



Congressional approval;



Evaluating Trump;



Prospects for Success or Failure.




Resources: 




ARI Resources on the American Conflict with Iran




This episode was recorded on March 3, 2026.  



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      <title>Choosing Life: An Interview with ‘The Green Prince’ Mosab Hassan Yousef</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/152652732/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21047</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:03:45 -0500</pubDate>
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In this special podcast episode, Yaron Brook and Elan Journo interview Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas founding leader who became one of Israel’s most valuable intelligence assets. Raised within the movement, Yousef recounts how his experiences led him to break decisively with Hamas and oppose it at great personal risk.



The conversation centers on the ideological nature of Hamas, an aspect often evaded by its apologists. Drawing on firsthand experience, Yousef describes a movement rooted in a culture of sexual repression and the subordination of women. He argues that these are foundational aspects of the religious Islamic ideology that suppresses dissent, encourages mass murder, and brutalizes its own people.



One of the most striking aspects of the interview is Yousef’s account of the conscious moral choice that guided his transformation: the choice to protect human life. In contrasting Hamas with Israel, he identifies a fundamental difference in values between a movement that glorifies death and a society that values human life.



Topics include:




Yousef’s defection from Hamas;



The ideology of Palestinian brutality;



Indoctrination in Palestinian society;



Palestinians’ repeated rejections of peace;



Risks of working with Israeli intelligence;



October 7;



Q&amp;A.




This podcast was recorded live on February 18, 2025, and is available on The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <title>How the SCOTUS Tariff Decision Helps Slow the Advance of Authoritarianism</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/152595973/</link>
      <rawvoice:pid>152595973</rawvoice:pid>
      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21035</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:47:36 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss the recent decision in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump, striking down the President’s expansive “Liberation Day” tariffs.  




The majority’s reasoning



The major questions doctrine



Statutory interpretation and legislative intent



The dissent’s plausibility



The separation of powers



A stopgap against eroding separation of powers



Scrutinizing deprivation of economic liberty, property



Emergency powers




Resources: 




Ben Bayer, “Ayn Rand on Free Trade, the 'Essence of Capitalism’s Foreign Policy'”



Ben Bayer, “The Constitutionally Dubious Law Empowering Trump’s ‘Emergency’ Tariff Authority”



Ben Bayer, “The Lawyers Defending Trump’s Tariffs Know They’re Un-American. Here’s How We Can Tell”




This episode was recorded on February 25, 2026.



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      <title>Ayn Rand, Immigrant: The Story of Her Journey to America</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/152562232/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=21025</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:28:29 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer interviews Agustina Vergara Cid and Brandon Lisi about their new article: “’I Chose to Be an American:’ Ayn Rand’s Immigration Story.”



Topics include:




Motivation for the article;



Why Rand chose America;



Obstacles Rand faced;



How Rand pushed America to live up to its values;



Archival resources consulted;



Most surprising facts about Rand’s story;



Impact of the article.




Read the article here: “’I Chose to be an American:’ Ayn Rand’s Immigration Story.”



This episode was recorded on February 23, 2026, and posted on February 24, 2026. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Is Trump Distinctively Responsible for the Rise of Political Violence?</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/152396602/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=20907</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:51:18 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the role of Trump in today’s rise in political violence.



Topics include:




How Trump’s campaign demonized fellow Americans



Connection between tribalism and violence



Trump’s whitewashing of violence



Trump’s targeted political attacks



Trump’s comfort with political force and strongmen



How “crisis narratives” legitimize the use of force




This episode was recorded on February 13, 2026. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <title>Fear of Progress: The Quest To End Autonomous Driving</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/152213728/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=20864</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:52:25 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Mike Mazza discuss the opposition to autonomous vehicles.



Topics include:




Why some people oppose autonomous vehicles;



The safety of autonomous vehicles;



Economic costs of automobile Accidents;



Fear of displacing jobs;



The “common man” argument;



Divine right of stagnation.




Resources:




Nathaniel Branden’s essay “Divine Right of Stagnation” in The Virtue of Selfishness




This episode was recorded on January 12, 2026, and posted on February 12, 2026. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <title>Values Are Made, Not Found: Watch Gregory Salmieri’s Talk on “Conceiving Values”</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:16:31 -0500</pubDate>
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It is common to think of values as things we “discover” about ourselves — pre-packaged preferences waiting somewhere deep inside. We speak, for example, of “discovering our passion” or of finally realizing “what we were meant to do,” as if these priorities had been there all along. On this view, valuing is automatic: we simply respond to our needs, desires, or emotions.



In his 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference talk, titled “Conceiving Values,” Gregory Salmieri offers a different account. Drawing on Ayn Rand’s distinctive view, he argues that valuing is not passive or instinctive. It is an active, cognitive achievement — something we must choose, learn, and practice.



Values, Salmieri explains, are goals within an ongoing process of self-sustaining action. Other organisms act to preserve themselves, but only human beings can conceptually identify and plan out their values.



To concretize this process, Salmieri turns to the work of creators.  An architect does not discover their buildings ready-made in the world; a novelist does not stumble upon finished stories; each must actively conceive a guiding idea and gradually give it concrete form. Likewise, valuing involves choosing long-range commitments that give direction to one’s actions and define the course of one’s life.



Topics covered in Salmieri’s talk include:




Conventional view of values vs. Objectivism’s;



Values and life;



Conceptual values in human beings;



Knowledge and goals in valuing;



Q&amp;A.




This talk was recorded live on July 5th in Boston, MA, as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, and is available on The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream.  Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Texas A&amp;M’s Ban on Plato: Anti-”Woke” Censorship?</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/152029433/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=20840</guid>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:45:42 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Sam Weaver and Ben Bayer discuss a new policy in Texas A&amp;M University that restricts professors’ ability to teach topics related to gender and sexual orientation, which resulted in one professor being prevented from teaching Plato’s Symposium.



Topics include:




Texas A&amp;M’s policy;



The case of Plato’s Symposium;



Relation to intellectual freedom;



Who should decide in public universities;



Motives behind the policy.




Resources:




Ayn Rand’s essay “Fairness Doctrine for Education” in Philosophy: Who Needs It



Onkar Ghate and Sam Weaver’s article “Trump vs. Harvard: Intellectual Freedom in the Crosshairs”




This episode was recorded on January 27, 2026, and posted on February 5, 2026. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <title>Does Success Require Sacrifice?</title>
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      <rawvoice:pid>151847093</rawvoice:pid>
      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=20805</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:59:05 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Tristan de Liège discuss the confusions involved in the conventional conception of sacrifice.



Topics include:




Examples of Sacrifice;



Investment vs. Sacrifice;



Value Hierarchy;



How to Rank Values Objectively;



‘Sacrifice’ as a package deal;



The false appeal of sacrifice.




Resources: 




Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged



Ayn Rand’s book The Fountainhead



Ayn Rand’s essay, “The Ethics of Emergencies”



The Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on sacrifice




This episode was recorded on December 30, 2025, and posted on January 29, 2026. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Renee Good Killing and Tribalism in America</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:10:53 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the implications of the killing of Renee Good for the rule of law. Among the topics covered:



Topics include:




ICE operations resembling military operations;



The immediate aftermath of the shooting;



The administration’s contempt for the rule of law;



ICE is not real police;



They way ICE conducts arrests;



The argument that the Constitution doesn’t apply to immigrants;



The administration playing to its base’s tribalism;



The administration’s loyalty tests;



The shooting of Ashli Babbitt;



The future of America.




Resources:




Synchronized videos of Renee Good’s shooting



The White House’s January 6 timeline  



The shooting of Ashli Babbitt  



Harry Binswanger’s essay “ICE vs. the rule of law, not of men”  



Podcast episode: ICE Raids vs. Rule of Law: Interviewing Institute for Justice’s Josh Windham  




This episode was recorded on January 21, 2026, and posted on January 22, 2026. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Iranian Theocracy on the Brink? Why Protesters Deserve Our Moral Support</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/151462619/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=20762</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:51:23 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate examine why Iran’s ongoing uprising may be the regime’s most serious challenge yet — and why it deserves far more moral support from the free world.



Topics include:




The nature of the protests;



Moral versus military support;



Trump versus Obama and Biden;



The benefits of a free Iran;



The roots of Western silence.




Resources:




Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism



What Justice Demands



"The U.S. has Appeased Iran for Decades”




This episode was recorded on January 13, 2026, and posted on January 14, 2026. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <title>Enlightenment on Trial: The Real Lessons of the American and French Revolutions</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:56:18 -0500</pubDate>
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The crimes of the French Revolution have long been regarded as indicting Enlightenment ideals. Its Reign of Terror has been seen as the product of an overconfident belief in reason, liberty, and human perfectibility. The American Revolution, by contrast, is said to have succeeded only because it was more moderate and traditional.



In his 2025 OCON talk, “Enlightenment on Trial: The Real Lessons of the American and French Revolutions,” Don Watkins challenges this narrative.



What history shows, Watkins contends, is that Enlightenment ideals in France were largely confined to intellectual elites within a rigid, hierarchical society. French culture was also shaped by powerful anti-Enlightenment currents — notably Rousseau’s elevation of passion and the collective over reason and the individual. These ideas later fueled the Terror. By contrast, many American colonists read thinkers such as Locke, Montesquieu, and Franklin and had long practiced self-government, giving Enlightenment ideals real cultural depth.



Watkins highlights a further, crucial difference between the two revolutions. The French were fundamentally motivated by hatred towards the ancien régime. French mob violence was widespread and brutal, since it sought, above all else, to eradicate the nobility, the clergy, and every other symbol of the past. Similar unrest was relatively limited and contained in America, where Americans resisted British rule with a positive aim: to establish a government that protected individual rights.



Among the topics covered:




Narratives about the French Revolution; 



The rise and fall of the Revolution; 



Two Revolutions compared; 



Contrasting motivations. 




This talk was recorded live on July 5th in Boston, MA, as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, and is available on The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>The Constitution Ignored: Trump’s War on Venezuela</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/151320047/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=20725</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:09:04 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the recent American attack on Venezuela to capture Nicolas Maduro.



Topics include:




Invalid “international law” objections;



An act of war;



Drug, “narcoterrorism” and oil excuses;



Nationalistic “spheres of influence”;



The altruistic conception of “self-interest”;



Contempt for the Constitution;



Ayn Rand on the Roots of War.




Resources: 




Ayn Rand, "The Roots of War"



ARI Podcast, "How Drug Boats Could Be Used to Rationalize an Unjust War with Venezuela," December 11 



ARI Podcast, “Trump’s Anti-Capitalist Control Over Business,” Sept 18, 2025



Onkar Ghate, "Saving the Enlightenment," OCON 2025




This episode was recorded on January 7, 2026, and posted on January 8, 2026. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:48:53 -0500</pubDate>
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This talk comparing Newton and Descartes approach to mathematics by David Bakker was recorded live on July 2nd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and is available on the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.  



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      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/151259678/</link>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:19:50 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss a recent essay by Steven Pinker and Marian Tupy (“The Golden Age of Humanity? We’re Living In It”) that aims to offer a secular alternative to the recent resurgence in religious culture.



Topics include:




The Anti-Enlightenment Phenomenon;



Pinker and Tupy’s secular strengths;



A weak critique of Christian morality;



Christian morality and antisemitism;



Understanding the crisis of meaning;



Unphilosophical moral foundations;



Alternative, Pro-Enlightenment moral foundation.




Resources: 




“The Objectivist Ethics,” Ayn Rand



“Finding Morality and Happiness Without God,” Onkar Ghate



“Debunking the Supernaturalism That Haunts Secular Ethics,” Ben Bayer




This episode was recorded on December 16, 2025, and posted on January 2, 2026. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <title>Re-release: Christmas Is About Joy, Not Guilt</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:35:06 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, originally released on December 23, 2024, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid explore the true meaning of Christmas by examining the history and philosophical significance of our holiday practices.



Among the topics covered:




The secular meaning of Christmas;



A proper view of Christmas’s commercial aspects;  



Why some people are antagonistic towards the Christmas spirit;  



How the doctrine of original sin undermines Christmas joy.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ben Bayer’s articles “Give the Gift of a Guilt-Free Christmas” and “The Meaningful Delights of a Worldly Christmas"  and Onkar Ghate’s essay “An Atheist’s Tribute to Christmas”.



This podcast was recorded on December 18, 2024 and released on December 23, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>RFK Jr.’s Irrational Anti-Vaccine Policies: Interview with Dr. Amesh Adalja</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/150851562/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:43:02 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Samantha Watkins interviews Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University, about the alarming trend of anti-vaccine irrationality coming from government leaders.



Topics include:




The state of vaccine science



Hepatitis B vaccine



Covid vaccine



The cause of conspiracism



The real-world impact of conspiracism



A healthy culture’s approach to vaccine science




Resources: 




“A Pro-Freedom Approach to Infectious Disease” by Onkar Ghate, in which he shares ARI’s view of the role of government with respect to infectious disease




This episode was recorded on December 15, 2025, and posted on December 18, 2025.



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      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/150673205/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:44:05 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the recent American attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and scrutinize pretexts for war with Venezuela.



Topics include:




 “War crimes” and international law;



The fake “terrorist” threat;



The “war on drugs”;



 The Venezuelan military “threat”;



Authoritarian presidential power.




Resources: 




Ayn Rand, “The Roots of War”




This episode was recorded on December 9, 2025, and posted on December 11, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <title>Spinoza: A Hero of the Enlightenment</title>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:51:59 -0500</pubDate>
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This talk by Alex Silverman was recorded live on July 2nd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and is available on the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:56:24 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Agustina Vergara Cid interviews Josh Windham, a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice, about the Trump administration’s immigration policy and its violations of constitutional rights.



Topics include:




The Garcia Venegas case;



Arbitrary “mass deportations”;



Kavanaugh on permissible profiling;



Qualified immunity;



DHS’ denial of reality;



Precedent for current enforcement;



American principles betrayed;



Standing up to authoritarianism.




This episode was recorded on December 2, 2025, and posted on December 4, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/150118050/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=20506</guid>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and ARI’s senior intellectuals make a deep dive into the moral crisis of the conservative movement.



Topics include:




Moral sanction;



“Cancel culture” and free speech;



Conservative tribalism;



How ARI is different.




Resources:




Onkar Ghate’s lecture On Moral Sanction




This episode was recorded on November 19, 2025, and posted on November 22, 2025.





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      <title>Mamdani’s Victory: How Bad is it For America?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:44:37 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Onkar Ghate discuss the implications of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York. As the country takes another step towards authoritarianism and tribalism, is there any hope to put a stop to the downward cultural and political spiral?



Topics include:




Mamdani’s evil;



Mamdani and populism;



The downward spiral of tribalism;



The education system gave us Mamdani;



Is there a hope for the future?




Resources:




Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, How NOT to Explain Mamdani’s Socialist Revival




This episode was recorded on November 17, 2025, and posted on November 21, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.





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      <title>Trump’s Un-American, Unconstitutional Tariff Scheme</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/150048206/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=20476</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:46:30 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Robertas Bakula examine the key arguments supporting the President’s tariffs before the Supreme Court and expose their un-American hostility to the rule of law. 



Topics include:




Background on the case;



Defying the rule of law;



Hostility to objective legal interpretation;



Tariffs are not foreign policy powers;



The absence of an “intelligible principle”;



Striking down unconstitutional laws;



Un-American arguments and policies;



Likely and desirable outcomes.




Resources: 




Ayn Rand Lexicon, “Law, objective and non-objective”



Ayn Rand, “The Nature of Government”



Ben Bayer, “The Constitutionally Dubious Law Empowering Trump’s ‘Emergency’ Tariff Authority”



Ben Bayer, “The President Has No “Foreign Policy” Discretion To Impose Sweeping Global Tariffs”



Ben Bayer, “The Lawyers Defending Trump’s Tariffs Know They’re Un-American. Here’s How We Can Tell”




This episode was recorded on November 13, 2025, and posted on November 19, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.





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      <title>Saving the Enlightenment</title>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:49:05 -0500</pubDate>
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The Enlightenment’s commitment to reason, individualism, and the power of knowledge sparked unprecedented progress in human life. Yet, despite this achievement, contemporary Western societies face deepening crises — mounting political violence, the collapse of alliances of free nations, and a growing support for authoritarian movements. What accounts for this reversal? 



In his talk, “Saving the Enlightenment,” delivered at ARI’s 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, Onkar Ghate diagnoses the problem at its root: our cultural crises are the aftermath of a crucial philosophical gap left by the Enlightenment.



 Ghate argues that a key feature of our cultural landscape is “a blind rebellion against an orgy of self-sacrifice.” Crises like 9/11, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the widespread embrace of DEI initiatives marked the unfolding of self-sacrificial policies that cost American lives. Many who now condemn their leaders do not realize how those policies reflect the same moral code they still accept. They embrace alternative ideologies (like nationalism) that channel the same code. So they don’t know their real target: their rebellion against “elite” demands for self-sacrifice is “blind.” 



This blindness, Ghate contends, stems from the Enlightenment’s failure to articulate a morality of self-interest. While its philosophers championed reason in science and politics, they never provided an alternative to the ethical frameworks that demanded individuals subordinate their welfare to collective duty. Consequently, modern culture lacks a coherent philosophy that sanctions the individual’s right to pursue happiness. 



To secure the Enlightenment’s legacy, Ghate urges, requires adopting an ethical system that validates rational self-interest and personal happiness as moral goods — principles that only Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism fully articulates. Objectivism, in his view, provides “the new morality that's necessary to cement the achievements of the Enlightenment.” 



Among the topics covered:




The Enlightenment and its failure 



The grip of self-sacrifice 



Self-sacrifice in the 21st century 



Today’s pseudo-selfishness 



Objectivism completes the Enlightenment




This talk was recorded live on July 2nd in Boston, MA, as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, and is available on The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Samantha Watkins challenge Zohran Mamdani’s plan to phase out NYC’s Gifted &amp; Talented program — a move that would hold back advanced students from the education they need to thrive — and replace it with universal free childcare.



Topics include:




NYC’s Gifted &amp; Talented Program



Mamdani’s Reasons to End G&amp;T 



Mamdani’s Universal Childcare Proposal



The Goal Is Punishing Gifted Kids



The Reaction to Mamdani’s Proposals



Education Is Not Zero-Sum




Resources: 




Ayn Rand, “The Age of Envy,” Return of the Primitive



Ayn Rand, “The Comprachicos,” Return of the Primitive




This episode was recorded on November 5, 2025, and posted on November 13, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.





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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer, Tristan de Liege, and Mike Mazza discuss Jeremy Sherman’s book, Neither Ghost Nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves.



Topics include:




Science and Philosophy;





Deacon’s Autogen Theory;





Other Theories of the Origin and Nature of Life;





Implications for Understanding Free Will;





Implications for Moral Philosophy.




Resources: 




Harry Binswanger, The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts




This episode was recorded on October 10, 2025, and posted on November 11, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate discuss both invalid and valid attempts to blame “both sides” of American politics for various outrages.Topics include:




Introduction



False moral equivalence



“Two sides to every issue”



Political violence on both sides



Free speech hostility on both sides



Altruism encourages tribal warfare



Recognizing and resisting tribalism




Resources: 




Ayn Rand, “Doesn’t Life Require Compromise?”, The Virtue of Selfishness



Ayn Rand, “The Missing Link,” Philosophy: Who Needs It



Ayn Rand, “Global Balkanization,” The Voice of Reason 




This episode was recorded on October 28, 2025, and posted on November 6, 2025.





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This talk by Robertas Bakula was recorded live on July 2nd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and is available on the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. 



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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège and Gregory Salmieri discuss friendship as a moral and philosophical value and explore the relationship between friendship, egoism, and altruism.



Topics include:




Friendship in Rand’s fiction;



Visibility in friendship;



Egoism and Friendship;   



Valuing Friendship;



Altruism and sacrifice;



Unconditional love;



Compromise and reciprocity.




Resources:




Tristan de Liège’s lecture “How to Value Friendship”



 A Companion to Ayn Rand, edited by Gregory Salmieri and Allan Gotthelf.




This episode was recorded on October 6, 2025, and posted October 30, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.







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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège, Mike Mazza, Gregory Salmieri and Ben Bayer discuss Kevin Mitchell’s book, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will.



Topics include:




The locus of free will;



Moral responsibility;



The relevance of quantum mechanics;



Determinism;



Aristotle;



Randomness and indeterminacy;



“Agent causation” vs entity causation;



Blank slate.




Resources:




Harry Binswanger’s essay “Volition as Cognitive Self-Regulation.”




This episode was recorded on October 9, 2025, and posted on October 24, 2025.]]></description>
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In this Ayn Rand Institute Podcast episode, Mike Mazza and Samantha Watkins analyze objections to new embryo screening technology.




Orchid’s new technology



Moral status of embryos



Genetic tradeoffs



The “Eugenics” smear



Views toward the disabled



Losing our humanity




Resources:




Ayn Rand’s essay, “The Anti-Industrial Revolution” in The Return of the Primitive;  



Ayn Rand’s essay, “Of Living Death” in The Voice of Reason;



Ben Bayer’s essay, “The Absurdity at the Heart of the Alabama IVF Controversy”;  



Ben Bayer’s book, “Why the Right to Abortion is Sacrosanct”.




This podcast was recorded on September 17, 2025, and posted on October 23, 2025.









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The American attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities was met with intense public debate about the proper course of U.S. foreign policy. The Objectivist philosophy offers a distinctive framework for thinking about such issues.



In his 2025 OCON talk, “Principles of a Proper Foreign Policy,” Peter Schwartz, an Objectivist intellectual and former chairman of ARI’s board, argues that a nation’s foreign policy should be guided by the principle of individual rights and aimed at protecting the nation’s freedom.



Schwartz explains why this approach requires the consistent application of moral judgment. He criticizes the dominant diplomatic approach, which forbids pronouncing moral judgment and has led to decades of disastrous consequences as a result.



Among the topics covered:




Individual rights as the guiding principle of a nation’s foreign policy;



Why justice and moral judgment are crucial for a proper foreign policy;



Why Trump’s foreign policy is against America’s interests;



How to address threats from Iran and elsewhere;



Why diplomacy has failed, and why a principled policy of self-interest is urgently needed;



Miscellaneous questions about foreign policy:How close we are to World War 3;Whether appeasement works sometimes;How people can sympathize with Hamas and Iran;

Whether individuals should be allowed to trade with hostile countries.






This talk was recorded live on July 2nd in Boston, MA, as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, and is available on The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.









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In this Ayn Rand Institute Podcast episode, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss the recent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.




Overall evaluation of the deal;



Evading Hamas’s evil goals;



The injustice of the deal;



Altruism enables the injustice;



Enemies of freedom must be defeated.




This podcast was recorded on October 15, 2025, and posted October 20, 2025.









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In this episode of ARI Bookshelf, Sam Weaver, Ben Bayer, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Ibis Slade critically examine America’s Cultural Revolution by Christopher Rufo and The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk.



Among the topics covered:




Nature of “woke” ideology;



“Domino” view of ideological influence;



Influence of right-wing ideas;



Rufo’s authoritarianism;



Mounk’s egalitarianism and collectivism;



Books’ perspectives on real injustices;



Merits of Mounk’s book;



Weakness of Rufo’s critiques;



Rufo’s un-American tribalism;



Influence of postmodern epistemology;



Why “woke” ideology isn’t Marxism




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand's essay “The Left: Old and New”, Rand’s book Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, and Leonard Peikoff’s book The DIM Hypothesis.



This episode was recorded on October 3, 2025, and posted on October 10, 2025.]]></description>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège and Ben Bayer discuss the widespread claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.



Among the topics covered:




Decoupling from the confusion of “international law”



Validating the concept of “genocide”;



The invalid collectivist elements of the concept;



The absurd UN definition of “genocide”;



Why the valid concept does not apply to Israel;



Sidebar on the issue of just and unjust war;



The genocidal intent of Hamas




Recommended in this podcast is Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ben Bayer's essay "We Ignore the Unconditional Right to Self-Defense at Our Peril", and the podcast with Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopolous, "Did Israel Steal Palestinian Land?"



The podcast was recorded on October 3, 2025, and posted on October 7, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Enlightenment, not Christianity, is the key to the West.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The recognition of a Palestinian state betrays good and rewards evil.]]></description>
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      <title>Trump vs. Kimmel: The Tribal Weaponization of the FCC against Free Speech</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Intimidating broadcasters with the “public interest” standard is a worse abridgement of free speech than censorship.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:37:13 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Business leaders need to stand up for themselves before it's too late.]]></description>
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      <title>Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Who Normalized Political Violence?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:50:06 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:40:48 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Rising authoritarian currents in America make truth and reason more urgent than ever.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:20:54 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:26:09 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos critique a recent Wall Street Journal article that tries to explain Zohran Mamdani’s rise and the persistence of socialism in American politics.



Among the topics covered:




Why socialism is not an innate impulse or the product of ignorance of history;



Why idealism alone does not explain socialism’s popularity;



How miseducation about capitalism contributes to the endurance of socialism;



Why you can’t fight woke ideology while upholding Christianity’s altruistic ethic;



How to defeat socialism.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, her article “Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World,” the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on Socialism, and Bayer’s articles “The Dishonesty of ‘Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried’” and “The Old Morality of the New Religions.”



The podcast was recorded on August 25, 2025 and posted on August 28, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:52:51 -0400</pubDate>
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America is a country that prizes freedom and the rule of law. Yet every day, we hear news of ICE raids on construction sites, Venezuelans shipped to foreign prisons without hearings, and sports tattoos treated as proof of criminality. As Agustina Vergara Cid warns in “Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process,” Americans have been turning a blind eye to this lawless, even authoritarian treatment. Delivered at the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, her talk is now available online.



While the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has made the headlines recently, Vergara Cid shows that the same lawlessness has spanned decades. The Obama administration, notorious for its record deportations, simply carried forward policies Congress had long codified.



Trump’s crackdowns threaten to further erode due process, which Vergara Cid identifies as the crucial legal safeguard which “stands between you and authoritarianism.” Today’s victims are peaceful immigrants; tomorrow, the target could be any American who dares to challenge the state.



Among the topics covered:




The immigration crackdown’s flagrant violation of due process;



Why everyone should care about due process;



How our authoritarian immigration system became normalized;



How, despite the bleak reality, America still welcomes immigrants;



Q&amp;A: How to speak up in defense of a free immigration system.




(Since recording, the men sent to El Salvador’s CECOT were released to Venezuela in a prisoner swap on July 18, 2025, after four months of imprisonment. Several now allege torture, and at least one alleges sexual assault.)



This podcast was recorded live on July 5th in Boston, MA as part of OCON 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>The Palestinians’ Most Deadly Weapon Against Israel: Altruism</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:23:40 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo, Nikos Sotirakopoulos, and Tristan De Liège explore how altruism clouds moral clarity about the Israel-Hamas war, undermining Israel’s righteous cause and whitewashing Hamas’ evil.



 Among the topics covered:




How the media coverage of the war has become egregiously deferential to Hamas and Hezbollah;



How altruism corrupts journalism by distorting moral judgment;



Why media deception deliberately aims to manipulate emotions;



The nature of Hamas’s totalitarian ideology;



Why genocide claims flout serious thinking about innocents in war;



How altruism cripples Israel's moral confidence in its cause.




Recommended in this podcast is Elan Journo's book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.



This podcast was recorded on August 13, 2025, and posted on August 21, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:05:55 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Samantha Watkins and Ben Bayer tackle the common criticism that Ayn Rand is "anti-family" and analyze its philosophical roots. They examine claims that Rand's novels omit discussions of having children and explore what her actual views on parenting reveal about living a rational, selfish life.



Among the topics covered:



● Debunking the notion that Rand ignores children and parenting;● Rand’s Actual View on Children and Parenting;● How choosing to be a parent can be a rational value;● Understanding investment versus genuine sacrifice in parenting;● Why fertility crisis concerns don't justify treating individuals as means to societal ends.



Recommended in this podcast are Gregory Salmieri's lecture "Reproduction and the Objectivist Ethics" and Ben Bayer's article "The Fountainhead and the Spirit of Youth."



This podcast was recorded July 30, 2025 and posted on August 14, 2025.



Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>What Went Wrong With Capitalism — A Review of Ruchir Sharma’s Book</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:55:14 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Tristan de Liège, Ben Bayer, Don Watkins, and Robertas Bakula discuss What Went Wrong with Capitalism by Ruchir Sharma.



The book examines the history of government bailouts, Federal Reserve policy, and the growing reach of the regulatory state. Contrary to popular belief, Sharma argues, government intervention in America didn’t shrink after Reagan — it kept growing. He also offers proposals for reversing these trends.



The discussion covered:




How Sharma refutes the myth that America has moved towards free markets in the last fifty years;



How the government and the Federal Reserve created distortions and downturns;



How the regulatory state expanded and decreased productivity;



Why the book’s treatment of inequality is self-defeating;



How the book’s views on capital misallocation and antitrust are contradictory;



How the book lacks sufficient philosophical perspective.




The video was recorded on July 17, 2025 and posted on August 8, 2025.]]></description>
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      <title>Abortion Bans vs. Women’s Lives</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/147633880/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:23:18 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid take a wide-ranging look at abortion bans since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, examining their destructive effects on the lives and freedoms of women and medical professionals.



Among the topics covered:




Ayn Rand’s distinctive defense of abortion rights;



How abortion bans have impaired women’s lives;



How anti-abortion laws impose arbitrary constraints against sound medical judgment;



The unfortunate rise of pregnancy-related prosecutions;



How abortion restrictions jeopardize doctors' freedom and careers;



Why signs of resistance show abortion bans can be reversed;



Evidence that the anti-abortion movement is motivated by a dark anti-sex agenda.




Recommended in this podcast are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on Abortion, Bayer’s book “Why the Right to Abortion Is Sacrosanct,” and his article “The Dark Form of Control Even Anti-Abortion ‘Moderates’ Want.” The podcast was recorded on July 28, 2025 and posted on August 9, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Trump vs. CBS: How Government Pressures Companies to Self-Censor</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/147529685/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Marek Michulka and Onkar Ghate examine the Trump administration's actions against CBS — including a billion-dollar lawsuit and FCC investigation — and argue that the FCC’s regulatory power is incompatible with free speech.



 Among the topics covered:




How Trump's actions against CBS are targeting them for their content;



How censorship in a free country relies on self-censorship; 



Why many critics of Trump’s actions miss the essential issue;



How antitrust is being used to force editorial rooms to cater to the whims of bureaucrats;



Why the realm of ideas can’t be separated from the realm of production and trade;



How elite universities’ “public interest” rhetoric opened the door to government control;



What the future holds.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand's essay “Have Gun, Will Nudge,” her talk “Censorship: Local and Express,” and her novel, especially Part II Chapter 5. 



This podcast was recorded on June 11, 2025 and posted on July 31, 2025.



Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Profit Without Apology: The Moral Case for Business</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:57:36 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Don Watkins unveil their new book, Profit Without Apology: The Need to Stand Up for Business. This book is the latest publication of ARI’s new initiative, Atlas Circle, an intellectual project aimed at standing up for business and helping business stand up for itself.



Among the topics covered:




Why Ayn Rand saw business as central to her moral defense of capitalism;



The philosophical roots of today’s anti-business culture;



How most people ignore the hard thinking that goes into business;



Why understanding the morality of the profit motive is essential to standing up for business;



The role of intellectuals in fostering a pro-business culture.




Recommended in this podcast are the Atlas Circle’s manifesto, “Profit Without Apology: The Need to Stand Up for Business,” the title essay of the book Profit Without Apology.



The podcast was recorded on July 22, 2025 and posted on July 24, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Highlights from the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:13:49 -0400</pubDate>
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The 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, held in Boston, Massachusetts, wrapped up two weeks ago, and now you can get a taste of the wide range of topics and speakers featured at the event in a new highlights video.



The compilation includes clips from the following talks:




“What is Western Civilization?” by Yaron Brook;



“Revolutionary Constitutionalism” by C. Bradley Thompson;



“Enlightenment on Trial: The Real Lessons of the American and French Revolutions” by Don Watkins;



“Saving the Enlightenment” by Onkar Ghate;



“The Road to Fascism (And Are We on It?)” by Nikos Sotirakopoulos;



“Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process” by Agustina Vergara Cid;



“Principles of a Proper Foreign Policy” by Peter Schwartz;



“America Should Declare Independence from Altruism” by Ben Bayer;



“Conceiving Values” by Greg Salmieri.




In addition, we have published two full-length lectures from the conference: Tal Tsfany’s annual address to ARI supporters, covering the Institute’s progress over the past year and its plans for the future; and Ben Bayer’s Independence Day talk, “America Should Declare Independence from Altruism.”]]></description>
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      <title>Tal Tsfany Unveils ARI’s Ambitions for Mainstreaming Objectivism</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:30:53 -0400</pubDate>
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As the Ayn Rand Institute marks its 40th anniversary, its mission to spread Objectivism through education has never been more urgent. In his 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference presentation, "Spreading Objectivism: A Vision for ARI's Future," President and CEO Tal Tsfany laid out a bold vision of the “big swings” ARI is taking to bring Objectivism into the cultural mainstream.



At the heart of this expansion are major advances in ARI’s educational offerings. Tsfany announced that ARI is ahead of schedule in pursuing accreditation for a Master of Arts in Objectivist Studies, aiming to become an accredited university by 2028. Meanwhile, the new ARI Live Courses program will offer quarterly classes at dramatically reduced prices. And a newly launched Intellectual Incubator will help students develop as intellectual entrepreneurs.



Meanwhile, ARI is scaling its cultural outreach. The Books for Students program aims to distribute 500,000 books annually by 2026, while the Books for Teachers initiative expands through a streamlined ordering system. Supporting this outreach is a new AI-enabled Institute website launching this fall, which will provide personalized learning tracks for 750,000 annual visitors.



To further Rand’s vision of an alliance between businessmen and intellectuals, ARI launched the Atlas Circle, invitation-only intellectual retreats bringing together leading businessmen and Objectivist thinkers. The Circle's first publication, Profit Without Apology: The Need to Stand Up for Business, calls on productive businessmen to push back against moral vilification.



ARI’s crowning project will be the Ayn Rand Center in Austin, TX, opening September 2, 2028. In addition to improved archival storage for the Ayn Rand Archives, the center will feature a cutting-edge interactive introduction to Rand’s novels, the Ayn Rand Immersive Experience.



As Tsfany emphasized, these bold initiatives represent the unity of thought and action that Rand envisioned, scaled for our time.



To learn more about ARI's efforts to fight for your values, watch Tal Tsfany's 2025 OCON talk.]]></description>
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      <title>Ben Bayer on America’s Need to Declare Independence from Altruism</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:48:03 -0400</pubDate>
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Ayn Rand viewed the American founding’s enshrinement of individuals rights as the greatest political achievement in human history. Yet the rising statism of the twentieth century dramatically undermined those ideals. In Rand’s view, America needed a moral revolution: one that renounced the ethics of altruism and embraced the morality of self-interest.



What would it take to achieve such a transformation? On Independence Day at the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, ARI fellow Ben Bayer took up this question in his provocative talk, “America Should Declare Independence from Altruism.”



Bayer argues that it is not enough just to affirm the morality of self-interest in words. Most people — even those who claim to support liberty — remain psychologically dependent on the morality of self-sacrifice and so are unwilling to defend freedom on principle.



To illustrate this dependency, Bayer offers an in-depth case study of the COVID lockdowns. He reminds us that these policies were imposed not just by Democrats but also by Republicans, the alleged defenders of American freedom. Republican leaders were cowed by moral pressure to impose shutdowns but have now worked hard to memory-hole their involvement.



Bayer argues that Republicans’ evasion of their own commitment to altruism dramatized underappreciated insights from Ayn Rand’s views on the psychology of altruism. 



One of Bayer’s most thought-provoking points is that the common pejorative use of the term “virtue signaling” reveals a lingering psychological dependence on altruism: critics mock those who merely signal “virtue” because they are unwilling to challenge the content of the signalers’ moral beliefs directly.



In the Q&amp;A period, Bayer addresses such topics as:




How altruism shaped America’s post-9/11 foreign policy;



Whether sweeping lockdowns can ever be justified;



The enduring relevance of Rand’s idea of the sanction of the victim;



The problems with the concept of “woke.”]]></description>
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      <title>How Immigration Restrictions Cripple American Businesses</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:34:07 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss how arbitrary immigration laws strangle American business.



Among the topics covered:




How immigration restrictions impose a form of economic central planning;



The role of the mixed economy in fueling the interest-group battle for legal carve-outs;



How ICE raids are used to terrorize businesses and hard-working immigrants;



How the Trump administration's visa rollback reveals its affinity for central planning;



Why arbitrary immigration enforcement threatens to cripple every major American industry;



Why supporting American business means defending the freedom to hire and trade.




Recommended in this podcast are Vergara Cid’s article “Immigration Regulations Strangle American Businesses,” her OCON 2023 talk “The Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System,” and Bayer’s article “Ayn Rand on Free Trade, the ‘Essence of Capitalism’s Foreign Policy’.”



The podcast was recorded on June 23, 2025 and posted on July 2, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>School Choice: Matt Bateman on Understanding Education Freedom</title>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Samantha Watkins interviews Dr. Matt Bateman, philosopher at GT School, co-founder of Higher Ground Education, and ARU instructor, about the school choice movement and the philosophical case for education freedom.



Among the topics covered:




What the expanding reach of school choice programs means for parental freedom; 



Why parents, not the government, should invest in education;



Why the school choice movement should refocus its arguments on parental rights; 



How bureaucratic accountability measures undermine school choice efforts;



Why Rand’s tax credit proposal is better than a voucher system;



The worst thing about the public school system;



Rand's influence on Bateman's approach to parenting and education.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand's essays "Tax Credits for Education" , "The Comprachicos", and "Art and Moral Treason".



This podcast was recorded Jun 3, 2025 and posted on June 26, 2025.



Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/146490689/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19439</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss two major recent events: Israel’s war against Iran and the political assassinations in Minnesota.



Among the topics covered:



The Israel-Iran War




Why Israel's war against Iran is a positive development;



Why a self-interested American foreign policy must break from the legacy of 9/11;




The Minnesota assassinations




How political violence is becoming a broader cultural trend;



How political violence is a tribal phenomenon.




The podcast was recorded on June 19, 2025 and posted on June 20, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Preview of the Objectivist Conference 2025</title>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19378</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo interviews ARI intellectuals about their upcoming talks at the Objectivist Summer Conference, taking place July 1-5 in Boston, Massachusetts.



Among the topics covered:




Audra Hilse’s talk, “Revised Blueprints: Early Versions of Part II of The Fountainhead,” which will draw on archival material to offer insights into Rand’s creative process;



David Bakker’s talk, “Newton Versus Descartes on the Exactness of Mathematics,” which will examine how their contrasting views on mathematical precision shaped the development of modern science;



Ben Bayer’s talk, “America Should Declare Independence from Altruism,” which will argue that America’s responses to 9/11 and Covid reflect a deep-rooted evasion of altruism’s moral flaws;



Don Watkins’ talk, “Enlightenment on Trial: The Real Lessons of the American and French Revolutions,” which will challenge conventional narratives about both revolutions to reframe how we understand the Enlightenment’s true legacy.




Registration is open for both in-person and virtual conference passes.



The podcast was recorded on June 9, 2025 and posted on June 11, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>The L.A. Riots and Mass Deportation: Both Evil</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/146230377/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19371</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss the ongoing mass protests in Los Angeles and how the Trump administration’s response also shows a disregard for the rule of law.



Among the topics covered:




The scale of the violence;



Evidence that the rioters do not care about immigrants’ individual rights;



Why the right to peaceably assemble does not imply a right to mass protest;



The bad jurisprudence that supports the alleged right to mass protest;



The lawlessness of Trump’s immigration policies;



What a proper response to Trump’s lawless immigration policy looks like.




Recommended in this podcast are The Ayn Rand Lexicon’s entry on free speech, Ghate and Bayer’s article “Ending Campus Protests Protects Free Speech,” and Bayer’s article “The Specter of Lawlessness Is Darker than You Think.”



The podcast was recorded on June 9, 2025 and posted on June 11, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>A Central Planner’s Trojan Horse: The Technological Republic</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/146080958/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19328</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:48:18 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Elan Journo, Mike Mazza, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Robertas Bakula discuss The Technological Republic, the recent New York Times bestseller by Alexander C. Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, and Nicholas W. Zamiska, the company’s head of corporate affairs and legal counsel.



Karp and Zamiska argue that America’s future greatness hinges on a renewed commitment to national industrial policy. They claim that Silicon Valley is failing the nation by prioritizing personal ambition and consumer gratification over government-directed projects. In response, they claim to offer a new model of partnership between the U.S. government and American business.



The discussion covered:




The plausibility of the book’s arguments;



How the book is a Trojan Horse for collectivism;



How the book undermines freedom and promotes central planning;



How the book rehashes old ideas;



Why only a free society is worth defending;



The disturbing metaphysical premises behind the book’s worldview.




The video was recorded on June 2, 2025 and posted on June 5, 2025.]]></description>
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      <title>Joe Rogan vs. Douglas Murray: Who’s Right About Trusting Experts?</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145928253/</link>
      <rawvoice:pid>145928253</rawvoice:pid>
      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19172</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Tristan de Liège examine Douglas Murray’s recent critique of Joe Rogan and other influencers who share their platforms with unreliable pseudo-experts. They explain why Murray fails to clarify the standards for distinguishing expert from non-expert testimony.



Among the topics covered:




Why Douglas Murray’s challenge to Joe Rogan’s platforming of non-experts is only partly right;



The proper role of expertise;



How to properly think about expert consensus as a non-expert;



How Murray is unclear about the standards we need for assessing expertise;



Why philosophical expertise, not simply on-the-ground experience, is crucial in evaluating the ethics of an ongoing war;



Why many people distrust experts.




Recommended in this episode are Gregory Salmieri’s lecture “How to Be an Objective Consumer of Science,” Ben Bayer’s talk “Being Objective About the News.”



The podcast was recorded on May 27, 2025 and posted May 30, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Reading Reform Beyond Phonics | Sam Weaver</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145948491/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19218</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:08:44 -0400</pubDate>
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American schools have long performed dismally at providing the education children need to read well. A movement in favor of systematic phonics instruction offers hope for improvement, but while phonics is essential to teaching children to read, they need further education to become highly capable readers. This talk by Sam Weaver defines a properly aspirational goal for reading education, explores the types of knowledge and skills that go into reading, and identifies key areas beyond phonics where American schools must improve if students are to achieve a high level of literacy. 



Recorded live on June 17 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>The Making of the Atom Bomb | Evan Picoult</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145903566/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19161</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 10:32:17 -0400</pubDate>
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The creation of the atom bomb during WWII was an extraordinary achievement, dramatized in part in the movie Oppenheimer. What were the three greatest challenges in making the bomb and how does the success in overcoming those very difficult obstacles illustrate the application of objectivity? Which great scientists’ work were most essential to the success of the project? As Ayn Rand said of Apollo 11, the Manhattan Project was “an achievement of reason, of logic, of mathematics, of total dedication to the absolutism of reality.” 



Recorded live on June 18 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Trump’s Display of Arbitrary Immigration Power</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145588355/</link>
      <rawvoice:pid>145588355</rawvoice:pid>
      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19085</guid>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 13:22:09 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid analyze how the Trump administration’s immigration policy has escalated attacks on due process, legal immigration, and the broader American system of government.



(Since the recording of this podcast, Rümeysa Öztürk has been granted bail by a federal judge and released after more than six weeks in detention.)



Among the topics covered:




How the Trump administration has ramped up mass deportations as a show of power;



The chilling, unconstitutional actions targeting legal immigration;



How Trump’s actions build on a long history of corrupt immigration laws and enforcement;



How the attack on due process aims at scaring immigrants into self-deporting;



How the unchecked abuse of executive powers threatens the American system of government.




Recommended in this podcast is the previous podcast episode on “What Would Mass Deportations Mean for Freedom in America?”



The podcast was recorded on May 7, 2025 and posted on May 14, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Racism: What It Is and Why It Persists | Gregory Salmieri</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145522583/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19079</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 12:58:09 -0400</pubDate>
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Ayn Rand denounced racism as “the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.” She also rejected as collectivist many of the measures being advocated to combat this evil, including what became the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On the sixtieth anniversary of that law, Dr. Greg Salmieri revisited the themes of Rand’s classic article “Racism,” relating them to present-day America.



Topics include the definitions of “race” and “racism,” how the rejection of free will incline intellectuals toward racism, how superficially opposed racist doctrines on the political left and right embolden one another, in what respects racism can be “institutional” or “systemic,” how statist policies (including provisions of the Civil Rights Act) perpetuate existing racial inequities, and why it is only by embracing capitalism that we can put racism and its legacies behind us. 



Recorded live on June 18 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Why Objectivity Demands a First-Handed Foreign Policy | Scott McDonald</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145422329/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19055</guid>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 17:06:50 -0400</pubDate>
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Foreign policy is both a political activity and a field of applied ethics. However, the metaphysical and epistemological premises held by theorists and practitioners shape their view of ethics. The lack of an objective view of the world has led to theories and policies that do not support, and are often harmful to, the role of a proper government. However, as Scott McDonald explains, an objective understanding of the global system can lead to a first-handed foreign policy. 



Recorded live on June 14 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>The ARI Bookshelf Explores Abundance</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145380986/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19037</guid>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 15:35:53 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Onkar Ghate, Tristan de Liège, and Robertas Bakula discuss Abundance, the recent best-selling book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson that has gained traction in liberal circles.



Klein and Thompson acknowledge the failings of past liberal policies and present what they call the “abundance agenda” as an alternative. The agenda emphasizes streamlined regulations alongside robust government involvement in production — an approach the authors claim will usher in a new political order.



The discussion covered:




The book’s central arguments;



How the “abundance agenda” is unphilosophical and collectivistic;



How the book’s position on environmentalism reveals its deeper philosophical problems;



How the book fails to distinguish between coercion and voluntary cooperation;



How the authors fail to check their premises about government;



Why the book’s admiration for China is troubling.




The video premiered on May 1, 2025.]]></description>
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      <title>How Capitalists Are Exploited</title>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19025</guid>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/0R_RjyOJeI4




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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer, Robertas Bakula, and Tristan de Liège explore how the mixed economy enables the unjust exploitation of society’s most productive individuals.



Among the topics covered:




Why, contrary to Marxist claims, businesspeople are the most exploited group in a mixed economy;



How antitrust laws enable the government and less successful companies to exploit successful companies;



How tariffs drive the material and spiritual exploitation of producers;



How farm subsidies reward stagnation at the taxpayers' expense;



How Atlas Shrugged dramatizes the exploitation of producers.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s books Atlas Shrugged and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, and the recent podcast episode on “The Marxists’ Exploitation Myth.”



The podcast was recorded on May 5, 2025 and posted on May 7, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits? | James Lennox</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145281699/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=19016</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 18:04:12 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/7Wjrmh8CjAk




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As a historian and philosopher of biology, much of Dr. James Lennox’s research has focused on the philosophical foundations of history’s two greatest biologists: Aristotle and Charles Darwin. Historians and philosophers often portray these two giants as diametrically opposed in their approach to the study of life. But were they? In this talk, he provides a novel answer to that question — and guidance on how to engage with such questions objectively. 



Recorded live on June 18 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>How to Recognize “Package-Deals”</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145216711/</link>
      <rawvoice:pid>145216711</rawvoice:pid>
      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18997</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 16:53:50 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/sNtIs4UmXns




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The most pernicious ideas are often injected into the culture by the method of “package-dealing” — the attempt to integrate the unintegratable. Expanding on previous material he has presented on this subject, Mr. Peter Schwartz offers a more advanced analysis of the mechanics of the package-deal. He addresses such questions as: Can the same word stand for both a valid concept and a package-deal? What is the role of a definition in the formation of package-deals? What is the difference between anti-concepts and package-deals? This talk focuses particularly on the telltale signs one should look for in trying to identify a package-deal. 



Recorded live on June 15 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>The New Iran Deal: Trump Recycles Obama Amoralism</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145188124/</link>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 13:20:09 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the Trump administration’s move to restart nuclear talks with Iran by rehashing Obama’s failed deal.



Among the topics covered:




How the Trump administration’s new Iran deal essentially recycles Obama’s failed policy;



Why hopes for diplomacy with Iran evade the regime’s totalitarian nature;



Why treating a death-worshipping regime as legitimate empowers its cause;



The role of tribalism in stripping moral principles from America’s foreign policy;



How Trump’s amoralism blinds him to the threat of foreign dictatorships.




Mentioned in this podcast are “ARI’s Resources on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East,” Journo’s book What Justice Demands, and his co-authored book with Onkar Ghate Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism.



This podcast was recorded on April 28, 2025 and posted on April 30, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>An Introduction to Psychology | Gena Gorlin</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145091202/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18971</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 11:10:06 -0400</pubDate>
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This sample class by Gena Gorlin is based on the full-length ARU course of the same name. The full course explores the major schools of thought, methods of inquiry, and empirical findings taught in a typical introduction to psychology course. But it explores how to understand and evaluate these theories, methods, and findings from an Objectivist perspective. Students learn how Objectivism can help us consume and get personal value from existing work in psychology, even when it is deeply flawed philosophically. The sample class will feature a selection of topics drawn from the full ARU course. 



Recorded live on June 16 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>21st-Century Revolutions in Medicine, Health Sciences, and Biotechnology | Amesh Adalja</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/145031340/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18953</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:40:08 -0400</pubDate>
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In this talk, Dr. Amesh Adalja details innovative new developments in science that will enhance the lives of individuals. Topics include transplantation of pig hearts and kidneys into humans, cell-based therapies for cancer, genetically modified mosquitoes, new vaccines and vaccine technologies, AI-discovered antibiotics, CRISPR therapeutics, and more. 



Recorded live on June 15 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Private Space Entrepreneurs vs. NASA: How Freedom Fuels Rockets</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144998828/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18944</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:27:48 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/pWpAiAioZTE




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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Mike Mazza explore the themes from Mazza’s upcoming essay, which argues that freedom, not government control, is the true engine of progress in the space industry.



Among the topics covered:




How NASA’s monopoly led to decades of stagnation in space innovation;



How economic freedom has fueled the recent progress in the space industry;



Why NASA’s role as a scientific research agency lies outside the proper scope of government;



How to answer critics who claim that private space ventures are just billionaire “playgrounds”;



The importance of entrepreneurial thinking in driving progress in the space industry.




Mentioned and recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “Apollo 11” from her The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought, Mazza’s and Tristan de Liège’s podcast episode “Space: The New Commercial Frontier,” and Mazza’s forthcoming essay, which will appear in New Ideal.



This podcast was recorded on April 21, 2025 and posted on April 23, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>The Revolutionary, Secular Concept of Individual Rights | Ben Bayer</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144893152/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18928</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:13:31 -0400</pubDate>
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As Ayn Rand wrote, “The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully—and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it.” We can see this failure of understanding in the view, advanced by many conservatives and libertarians today, that the concept of individual rights ultimately derives from or is at least consistent with the Judeo-Christian morality. 



In this talk, Ben Bayer explores some highlights of the history of the concept to understand why it is essentially a secular innovation, even when thinkers who helped advance it held Christian views. He especially focuses on how Enlightenment views of human nature and knowledge helped untether “rights” discourse from its antecedents in religious thought. 



Recorded live on June 17 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Philosophy of Math | Harry Binswanger</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144830763/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18903</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:24:55 -0400</pubDate>
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A continuation of Dr. Harry Binswanger’s Saving Math from Plato (OCON 2023): how the Aristotelian, perception-based approach to mathematics refutes or re-interprets wrong ideas advanced by figures such as Russell and Cantor. Topics include number, infinity, limits, and the axiomatic concepts of mathematics. (The lecture assumes no knowledge of mathematics beyond beginning algebra.)



Recorded live on June 16 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Does Targeting Columbia University Target Intellectual Freedom?</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144794761/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18893</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:47:03 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Sam Weaver and Ben Bayer discuss the Trump administration's decision to cut federal funding to Columbia University in response to its handling of pro-Hamas protests. They argue that government involvement in universities makes such coercion possible and threatens intellectual freedom.



Among the topics covered:




How to think about the pro-Hamas protests at Columbia;



The nature of Trump’s actions against Columbia;



How federal funding threatens intellectual freedom;



How Trump’s actions violate intellectual freedom;



Why Trump’s measures are uniquely destructive;



How the concept of  “academic freedom” confuses the issue;



How to remove force from educational institutions.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essays “The Establishing of an Establishment” and “Fairness Doctrine for Education,” the article “More University Donors Should Go Galt,” and the podcast episode “DeSantis’s Push to Ideologically Transform Florida Colleges.”



This podcast was recorded on April 8, 2025 and posted on April 16, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Why Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message Is So Wrong on Palestine | ARI Bookshelf</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144696464/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18884</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:51:05 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/VaNHaT-xlOU




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The new ARI Bookshelf podcast series gives you a window into ARI’s educational programs by showcasing our faculty as they discuss books of recent interest. This episode discusses Ta-Nehisi Coates's book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Message. Panelists included Elan Journo, Greg Salmieri, Ibis Slade, and Mohamed Ali.]]></description>
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      <title>Socratic Wisdom | Jason Rheins</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144612088/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18860</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:35:06 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/RKtLU6ntECU




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“Socratic Wisdom” — knowing our own ignorance — is the ability to differentiate what we do not know from what we do. This is a key component of objectivity, vital for properly weighing and implementing the knowledge we possess and directing ongoing investigation and inquiry. 



In this talk, Jason Rheins discusses the nature and importance of this introspective clarity and how it is achieved. He covers practical methods and specific tips for identifying our ignorance and differentiating it from our knowledge. 



Recorded live on June 18 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Trump’s Authoritarian War on Trade</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144573227/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18849</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:13:46 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/vFaDm6eo-mk




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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer examine the Trump administration’s recent tariff policy and the legal, economic, and political disruptions they create.



Among the topics covered:




Why tariffs are not a proper foreign policy instrument to deter the threat from China;



Why all justifications for tariffs are arbitrary and collectivistic in nature;



How the obsession with trade deficits reveals outright ignorance of economic principles;



How legal ambiguity has enabled the executive to wield authoritarian power;



How Trump’s whim-driven rule is pushing the country toward authoritarianism;



The economic chaos caused by the tariffs;



What hopes exist for reversing the policy.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s articles “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business” and “The Moratorium on Brains.” The podcast was recorded on April 9, 2025 and posted on April 10, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Marx vs. the Individual | Nikos Sotirakopoulos</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144423829/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18841</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:48:05 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/-c6W8JuZsVo




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Oppression and authoritarianism have been constant themes in regimes that ruled in the name of Marxism. From the Soviet Union to Cuba and from Yugoslavia to China, individual rights were ignored and violently suppressed. Is such anti-individualism a feature or a bug in Marxism? What about Marx himself? How did he view the individual? Was he the one who planted the seed for the future orgy of anti-individualist violence that has been perpetrated in his name? Nikos Sotirakopoulos tackles these questions in this talk from OCON 2024. 



Recorded live on June 15 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Objectivity in One-to-One Conversations | Jean Moroney</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144338068/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18822</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:44:47 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/093vQKWPwvs




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Objectivity is the key to avoiding misunderstandings and making one-to-one conversations productive. There are two contexts of knowledge, two value hierarchies, and two “crows” to consider to communicate effectively. In this talk from OCON 2024, Jean Moroney covers the topics: what constitutes subjective vs. objective goals for a conversation, the need to manage emotions as they arise rather than shut them down, and how doing this effectively by “holding all of the values with care” can get a conversation back on track and help you deal objectively with another person’s real or apparent irrationality. 



Recorded live on June 14 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Debunking the ‘Not Real Socialism’ Myth</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144293404/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18814</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:38:38 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/a3bgumyKdAA




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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos dismantle the claim that “real socialism” has never been attempted.



Among the topics covered:




Why many young Americans support socialism;



How Soviet leaders were driven by Marxist ideology;



Why Joseph Stalin epitomized Marxist principles;



Why dictatorship is the logical outcome of socialist central planning;



How the definition of socialism has been watered down to evade its historical crimes;



The persistent rationalizations used to defend socialism.




Recommended in this podcast are The Ayn Rand Lexicon’s entry on socialism, Bayer’s essay “The Dishonesty of ‘Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried,’” and Sotirakopoulos’ upcoming ARU course “Marx and Communism.” The podcast was recorded on April 1, 2025 and posted on April 2, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>‘From Heaven Through the World to Hell’: Goethe’s Faust as Romantic Hero | Nicolas Krusek</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144166832/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18798</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 05:39:54 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/8wKAKmydUlg




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Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust is a monumental work of Romantic literature that presents one man’s ceaseless striving to transcend the limitations of human knowledge and experience. By exploring some of the most profound and moving passages from the poem, this talk by Nicolas Krusek provides a glimpse of Goethe’s grand-scale themes and characterizations, and demonstrate the rich rewards to be gained by joining his hero—the “good man” with the “darkling aspiration”—on his quest to discover the “highest wisdom” of life. 



Recorded live on June 18 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes | ARI Bookshelf</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144060957/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18776</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:59:14 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/HtOmp-fh-Pk




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This episode of ARI Bookshelf features Naomi Oreskes’s bookWhy Trust Science? Panelists include Ben Bayer, Jason Rheins, Mike Mazza, and Daniel Schwartz.



Why Trust Science? asks when and why non-experts can trust science. It argues that it is the social character of science that makes it trustworthy.



Our panelists judge whether the arguments Oreskes gives are convincing and examine her views about the value of consensus and diversity in scientists’ beliefs and values. They also discuss the philosophy of science more generally and consider how laypeople should evaluate climate science and anti-vaccine claims.]]></description>
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      <title>Why Business Leaders Won’t Object to Trump’s Tariffs</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/144006048/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18767</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:12:51 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate challenge the myth that America is ruled by plutocrats, exposing how fear of governmental threats drives business decisions.



Among the topics covered:




How CEOs’ silence in the face of Trump’s destructive tariff policies debunks the myth of plutocracy;



How threats from the Trump administration instill fear in America’s top producers;



How attacks on Zuckerberg and other CEOs reveal that business has no allies;



Why businessmen are not the rulers of the system but the pawns;



The urgent need for business leaders to stand up for themselves.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essays “The National Interest, c’est moi” in The Objectivist Newsletter,  “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business” in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Onkar Ghate’s lecture “Freedom and the Need for Business to Stand Up for Itself,” and The Atlas Circle.



The podcast was recorded on March 25, 2025 and posted on March 27, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>How to Value Friendship | Tristan de Liège</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/143857803/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18759</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:13:44 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/qBTy_9VVhuE




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Often, people make the mistake of being too passive about friendship, treating it as something that just happens automatically in life—for instance, maintaining friendships with people one just happened to know growing up, or using shortcuts, such as a shared philosophy, in choosing friends. 



In this talk, Tristan de Liège explores in detail what it means to pursue friendship in a philosophically minded way—integrating the value of friendship with one’s other values, pursuing them with purpose, and honoring the trade that is the spiritual foundation of friendship. 



Recorded live on June 15 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>America’s History of Immigration Restrictions | Agustina Vergara Cid</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/143767368/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:52:17 -0400</pubDate>
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Immigration is one of the most contentious topics on today's political landscape. But that has always been true throughout America history. Why have immigration restrictions taken hold in America since the nineteenth century? What ideas animate immigration restrictionists, and what explains their success in restricting immigration in the U.S.? 



In this talk, Agustina Vergara Cid takes you through the history of the immigration debate in the U.S., uncovers the philosophy behind restrictionists, and points to a solution to bring about more freedom in the U.S. 



Recorded live on June 16 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>USAID Corruption: Deeper Than You Think</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/143717913/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:09:23 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid examine the current controversy over USAID and discuss Ayn Rand’s distinctive critique of the morality behind America’s foreign aid.



Among the topics covered:




How recent revelations about USAID expose the agency’s absurd, if not malicious, activities;



Why Rand viewed foreign aid and its justification in the name of “the public interest” as morally corrupt;



The continuing relevance of Rand’s critique of the altruistic premises underlying arguments for foreign aid;



How an unprincipled foreign policy has failed to protect America’s interests abroad and wasted its resources;



The role of foreign aid in a proper, pro-American foreign policy.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essays “The Pull Peddlers” and “Altruism as Appeasement,” available in The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought.



The podcast was recorded on March 10, 2025 and posted on March 19, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Egoism Without Permission – It Begins with Desire | Tara Smith</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/143571911/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:22:14 -0400</pubDate>
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How can we live more egoistically? What makes us want to live more egoistically? Not everyone does. In her talk “Egoism Without Permission – It Begins with Desire” at Objectivist Summer Conference 2024 in Anaheim, Tara Smith explored the connection between these questions, drawing material from her new book Egoism Without Permission: The Moral Psychology of Ayn Rand’s Ethics.



Recorded live on June 17 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Freely Determined by Kennon M. Sheldon | ARI Bookshelf</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/143479832/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:32:08 -0400</pubDate>
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A new ARI podcast series, ARI Bookshelf, gives you a window into ARI’s educational programs by showcasing our faculty as they discuss books of recent interest. This episode discusses Kennon M. Sheldon’s book Freely Determined. Panelists include Ben Bayer, Jason Rheins, Greg Salmieri, and Gena Gorlin.



Freely Determined offers a psychologist’s case against popular forms of determinism and argues that mental health depends on a belief in one’s agency.



Our panelists examine Sheldon’s arguments and positions from a wider philosophical perspective and indicate its strengths and weaknesses. They find value in his answers to scientific arguments for determinism but question his account of motivation. They also discuss the value of psychological research and the relationship between philosophy and the sciences.



The discussion covered:




Panelists’ general take on the book;



The history of arguments for and against free will;



How mental health may depend on a belief in one’s agency;



The book’s distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation;



The book’s vague conceptualization of the self;



Why progress in psychology is messy.




The video with the episode was originally released on September 10, 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Why the Ayn Rand Institute Comments on Current Events</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss why ARI comments on current events and why applying Objectivism to cultural issues is central to its essence as a philosophy for living on earth.



Among the topics covered:




How ARI’s commentary fits its mission;



Why applying Objectivism to current events is essential to understanding the philosophy;



Why persuading minds about Objectivism requires distinguishing it from mainstream ideas;



What is wrong with the objection that no one can speak for Ayn Rand;



What to expect from ARI’s commentary in the future.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “What Can One Do?” in Philosophy: Who Needs it?, and Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer’s discussion “How Can We Change People's Minds About Ayn Rand's Controversial Ideas?”



The podcast was recorded on March 10, 2025 and released on March 12, 2025. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe where you get your podcasts from. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>The ARI Bookshelf Explores Three Books on the Influence of Christianity on Western Culture</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/143312820/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:37:47 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Jason Rheins, Ben Bayer, Don Watkins, and Alex Silverman examine two contrasting perspectives on the influence of Christianity: Tom Holland’s Dominion and Charles Freeman’s The Closing of the Western Mind and The Reopening of the Western Mind.



While Holland’s widely discussed book argues that Christianity is the foundation of science and Western values, Freeman’s books present a contrary view. Our panelists bring their expertise to evaluate the arguments in both books, assessing their historical and philosophical accuracy.



The discussion covered:




The central arguments of the books;



Why the Church feared Aristotelian philosophy;



How Freeman’s books provide a more thorough and philosophical analysis than Holland’s;



How Holland diminishes Greek influence on modernity;



How Holland appropriates secular ideas and thinkers into Christianity;



The role of Christianity in the abolition of slavery;



The relationship between Christianity and science;



Why Holland’s book gained popularity while Freeman’s did not.




The video premiered on March 11, 2025.]]></description>
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      <title>Behind the Scenes: Ayn Rand’s West Point Lecture (1974–2024)</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/143182997/</link>
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      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:12:40 -0400</pubDate>
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Fifty years ago, Ayn Rand journeyed to West Point to speak to a new senior-level course offered by the Department of English. She told the cadets — and the world — who needed philosophy, and why. Now, from Shoshana Milgram, you can learn from archival documents and new interviews why and when she was invited, which readings the course contained, how she prepared, and what about her lecture astonished her hosts. 



Recorded live on June 14 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Trump’s Betrayal of Ukraine</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/143125771/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18637</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:14:49 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast Ziemowit Gowin interviews Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate on Trump’s stance on the Ukraine-Russia war, which led him to call President Zelensky a dictator and publicly berate him in the Oval Office.



Among the topics covered:




What America’s approach to the Ukraine-Russia war should be;



How Trump’s Oval Office blowup at Zelensky reveals his amorality;



The mindset driving Trump’s sympathy for Putin and his approach to negotiation;



When it would be proper to negotiate with an aggressor;



The long-term consequences of America’s pro-Russia shift.




Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s essay “The Anatomy of Compromise” in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Recommended for further reading are Elan Journo’s essay “Why John Mearsheimer Gets Ukraine Wrong,” Ziemowit Gowin’s essay “European Appeasement Emboldened Putin’s Aggression,”and Journo’s and Ben Bayer’s essay “Putin’s War Embodies National Conservatism’s Ideology.”



The podcast was recorded on March 5, 2025 and released on March 7, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Karl Popper’s Rejection of Induction</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/142991966/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18622</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:24:56 -0500</pubDate>
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How does science work, and how does it differ from religion or pseudo-science? According to Karl Popper’s “falsificationism,” science, unlike religion and pseudo-science, doesn’t claim certainty; it aims only to disprove its hypotheses, and this is the source of its rationality. Popper proposed his theory as an alternative to the view that science distinguishes itself by proving its conclusions inductively. 



In this lecture, Mike Mazza discuss the reasons behind Popper’s anti-inductivism and falsificationism and how they undercut the rationality of science. 



Recorded live on June 16 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Will Jeff Bezos’s &lt;em&gt;Washington Post&lt;/em&gt; Defend “Personal Liberties and Free Markets”?</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/142922855/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18612</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:58:41 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo examine Jeff Bezos' decision to reorient The Washington Post's opinion section toward issues of personal and economic freedom.



Among the topics covered:




How Bezos' move reflects a genuine appreciation for the American ideals that enabled his success;



How Ayn Rand's critique of discretionary government power should concern Elon Musk;



Why the new opinion section must confront the Trump administration's threats to freedom;



How the backlash against Bezos overlooks the reality that business leaders are victims of government controls who ought to defend their rights;



The role of the mixed economy in corrupting the American system.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business” and the resources at ARI’s new pro-business initiative, The Atlas Circle.



The podcast was recorded on February 26, 2025 and posted on February 28, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Cashing In on Objectivism</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/142872559/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=18596</guid>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:27:36 -0500</pubDate>
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Philosophy is for living. But how do you get the most value out of your philosophy? This is a question the panelists have been exploring from a variety of perspectives, ranging from psychology to moral philosophy to personal development. Gena Gorlin, Tara Smith, Tal Tsfany, and Don Watkins, shared their thoughts on how to leverage Objectivism for success and happiness, addressing questions such as “What are common struggles people face in trying to live by Objectivism?” and “What are underappreciated aspects of Ayn Rand’s philosophy that can empower people to enjoy life more?” 



Recorded live on June 15 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>The Marxists’ Exploitation Myth</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos challenge the exploitation theory of value at the root of many attacks on capitalists by both the political left and right.



Among the topics covered:




How the exploitation theory is entrenched in mainstream political thought;



How the exploitation theory fails to grasp how the capitalist produces value;



How mainstream defenses of capitalists fail to grasp how they produce value;



How capitalists benefit all of us immensely by increasing our productivity;



Rejecting the Marxist “pyramid of exploitation” for Rand’s “pyramid of ability.”




Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged.



The podcast was recorded on February 21, 2025, and released on February 26, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger: ARI Bookshelf Discussion</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
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A new ARI podcast series gives you a window into ARI’s educational programs by showcasing our faculty as they discuss books of recent interest. The series, the ARI Bookshelf, premiered on August 6 with an episode discussing Wolfram Eilenberger’s book The Visionaries. Panelists included Ben Bayer, Jason Rheins, Greg Salmieri, and Shoshana Milgram.



The visionaries of the book’s title are four mid-twentieth century female philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand.



Through interweaving biographies of these four figures, the book aims to show, as its subtitle puts it, “the power of philosophy in dark times.” According to Ben Bayer, “this was a very interesting book to read, especially because of the kind of novelistic quality of it, where you’re not just reading about their ideas, but you’re seeing what’s happening in their lives […] against the backdrop of some pretty dramatic geopolitical events of the period.”



Among the topics covered:




Panelists’ general takes on the book;



How Simone Weil’s philosophy causes her to martyr herself;



The thematic unity of the four figures;



The significance of the four figures being women;



The book’s sloppy treatment and misrepresentation of Rand;



How the book whitewashes evil;



Why the book may be worth reading.




The video premiered on August 6, 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Does Forgiveness Heal — or Whitewash Evil?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:48:55 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Tristan de Liège discuss why the traditional conception of forgiveness is evil and indicate how to think of it from an Objectivist perspective.



Among the topics covered:




How forgiveness is conventionally understood;



Why the idea of “forgive and forget” enables injustice;



Why forgiving a murderous dictator like Putin would be horrific;



Why a rational view of forgiveness must be rooted in justice;



The story of Mosab Hassan Yousef as an example of earning forgiveness;



How healing from injustice comes from maintaining a positive value context, not forgiveness;



Whether there is need for a separate concept of forgiveness.




Recommended in this podcast are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entries on “Mercy,” “Justice,” and “Moral Judgment.” The podcast was recorded on February 14, 2025 and posted on February 19, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>War, Politics, Ideas: A Panel on Foreign Policy</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/142381293/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:46:37 -0500</pubDate>
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What is at stake in the Russia/Ukraine and the Israel/Hamas conflicts? What are America’s interests in the chaotic Middle East? How do we evaluate China’s global ambitions and its claims on Taiwan? What’s the impact of foreign policy on the 2024 campaign trail? How does Objectivism help us unpack these and related issues? Panel discussion featuring Yaron Brook, Peter Schwartz, and Scott McDonald, moderated by Elan Journo, with extensive audience Q&amp;A. 



Recorded live on June 16 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>How to Think About Current Events</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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Join one of ARI's many online educational courses. Our new "Flex" option allows you to take these courses at your own pace, whenever you have the time, while also still retaining the benefit of having your questions answered and your assignments graded by a real instructor. Browse our catalog now: https://aru.aynrand.org/ 



In the age of social media everyone’s a self-proclaimed pundit, tweeting or posting on current events whether or not they possess any relevant knowledge or expertise. Meanwhile, our culture is saturated with stale, conventional thinking. People are taken in far too easily by false alternatives, tribalism, and superficial perspectives utterly lacking in nuance or principle. 



In this sample class—based on the full-length ARU course of the same name—Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate will share their insights into how they approach thinking about current events, how they acquire sufficient knowledge to comment meaningfully on any given topic, and how they use Objectivism as a lens to clarify even the thorniest of issues. 



Recorded live on June 15 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:29:46 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the moral travesty of the Gaza deal and the intellectual bankruptcy it reveals in foreign policy thinking.



Among the topics covered:




Why the Gaza deal will not bring peace but ensure further aggression by Hamas;



How the lopsided hostage release deal is a win for Hamas;



How the Gaza deal is short-sighted and self-sacrificial;



How Trump’s “real estate” deal would reward Gazans for their aggression;



How the Gaza deal reveals a blindness to the role of ideas in motivating aggression.




Recommended in this podcast are ARI’s “Resources on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East," Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands, and Ben Bayer’s article “We Ignore the Unconditional Right to Self-Defense at Our Peril."



The podcast was recorded on February 12, 2025, and released on February 14, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get you podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:46:41 -0500</pubDate>
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Accelerate your understanding of Objectivism today by joining one of our many online educational courses. Our new "Flex" option allows you to take these courses at your own pace, whenever you have the time, while also still retaining the benefit of having your questions answered and your assignments graded by a real instructor. Sign up now: https://aru.aynrand.org/ 



This sample class is based on the full-length ARU course of the same name by Don Watkins and Tal Tsfany. The full course explores the principles and attitudes that will help guide students in their work, career, and the world of business more generally. A major focus is on what the application of these ideas looks like, explored in part through a series of interviews and discussions with Objectivist businessmen, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and professionals in various fields. 



The session focuses on the nature of a fulfilling career, how to select a career, and key tips for building a fulfilling career. 



Recorded live on June 17 in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024.]]></description>
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      <title>Google’s Real Crime? Being Too Good. The Antitrust War Exposed</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:02:33 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Robertas Bakula discuss the latest developments of the Department of Justice’s vicious antitrust persecution of Google.



Among the topics covered:




How the antitrust attack on Google is driven by hatred of its productive virtues;



How the DOJ's remedies for Google's alleged crime punish their success;



Google’s failure to challenge the government’s right to persecute them;



Why calling out the evil of antitrust would give Google the moral high ground;



How the Trump administration is just as bad as Biden’s on antitrust prosecution;



What Google and other persecuted businesses can do to defend themselves.




Recommended in this podcast are “Open Letter to Google’s Sundar Pichai and Team,” which is the first project of ARI’s Atlas Circle initiative, the previous podcast episode on “The Vicious Antitrust Case Against Google,” and Ayn Rand’s essay, “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business.”



The podcast was recorded on February 5, 2025 and released on February 7, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Interview with Energy Entrepreneur Bud Brigham: ARI Donor Roundtable</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:21:23 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo interviews, Bud Brigham, a lifelong entrepreneur and the founder of multiple successful companies, most notably Atlas Energy Solutions. Mr. Brigham built his career on a vision of innovation and an uncompromising commitment to individualism, values deeply informed by Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. In this interview, Mr. Brigham shares how The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged inspired him to take bold risks and create lasting value in the energy sector.



Among the topics covered:




Introduction to the Roundtable and to Bud Brigham;



What motivates Brigham’s continuing entrepreneurship;



How Brigham’s companies innovated to overcome economic and technological challenges;



Brigham’s battle to build the innovative Dune Express, the world’s second-longest conveyor belt transporting fracking sand;  



How Objectivist ideas have inspired and empowered Brigham’s career;



How Brigham works to encourage industry peers to stand up on principle against demands for regulation;  



Brigham’s advice for young entrepreneurs;



Brigham’s favorite passage from Ayn Rand.




The interview with Mr. Brigham occurred at a recent ARI Donor Roundtable on January 25, an event usually available exclusively for donors. If you'd like to participate in the next Roundtable event, consider joining ARI as a supporter.]]></description>
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      <title>The Dramatic Injustice of the January 6 Pardons</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:09:44 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss Trump’s blanket pardon of all the people involved in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.



Among the topics covered:




How Trump’s blanket pardon lets outrageous evil off the hook;



How Trump’s claims about the 2020 elections and the January 6 attack are arbitrary;



How Trump and many Republicans are attempting to rewrite reality;



How the pardons normalize political violence and reflect the tribalism of our culture;



Why the blanket pardoning is an attack on the Constitution and the rule of law.




Recommended in this podcast are the podcast episodes “The Storming of the Capitol” and “The January 6 Hearings.”



The podcast was recorded and posted on January 22, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Facebook’s Reversal on Content-Moderation and ‘Free Speech’</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:20:00 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer analyze Mark Zuckerberg's recent comments on Facebook’s policy changes and whether they truly represent a victory for free speech.



Among the topics covered:




How Facebook’s content moderation is not a violation of free speech;



How the government’s intimidation of Facebook is a violation of free speech;



How both the Biden and Trump administrations intimidate Facebook;



How CEOs, like Zuckerberg, morally sanction the attacks against them;



Why CEOs, like Zuckerberg, need a principled defense from intellectuals.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s article “’Have Gun, Will Nudge’” in The Objectivist Newsletter and Ben Bayer’s article “Facebook: Censor or Victim?”



The podcast was recorded on January 15, 2025 and released on January 16, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>David Goggins, Suffering, and the Pursuit of Values</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:28:30 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss David Goggins’ idea that suffering is central to the pursuit of values.



Among the topics covered:




The popular idea that embracing suffering is essential to a successful life;



David Goggins’ incredible life and character;



Why life is not fundamentally about overcoming suffering;



What makes Goggins’ message inspiring, despite its misconceptions;



Why Objectivism views happiness, not suffering, as the ultimate purpose of life.




Recommended in this podcast are Ben Bayer’s “Don’t Resign Yourself to Suffering, Combat It” and the podcast episode on “Should We Accept Suffering as Part of Life?”



The podcast was recorded on January 6, 2025 and released on January 9, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Jordan Peterson vs Ayn Rand on Finding Purpose in Life</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:49:16 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss how to make one’s life purposeful, without falling for the sacrificial tropes popular in our culture.



Among the topics covered:




Why aiming at a challenging, effortful life should not be equated with suffering;



How to evaluate Jordan Peterson’s notion that meaning is found outside of one’s life;



What is wrong with pursuing purpose by bearing others' burdens;



Why achievement, not suffering, is the essence of human life and morality.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.



The podcast was recorded on December 17, 2024 and released on January 1, 2025. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Syria’s Collapse: Jihadists Replace Assad</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:36:35 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo analyze the moral significance of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and its replacement by jihadists.



Among the topics covered:




Why authoritarian regimes, like Assad’s, are fundamentally weak and unstable;



How the future of the Middle East is constrained by anti-freedom ideologies;



How the media coverage of Assad’s fall is blind to the crucial role of ideas;



How altruism prevents us from seeing others regimes, like Hamas, as evil;



Why America’s security depends on deterring bad actors, not nation-building.




Mentioned in this podcast are Onkar Ghate’s and Elan Journo’s co-authored book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism, Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , and Journo’s and Yaron Brook’s coauthored essay "The Banality of Putin and Xi."



This podcast was recorded on December 17, 2024 and posted on December 20, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:10:27 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the reaction to the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and the hatred towards businessmen in America.



Among the topics covered:




Examples of the culture treating businessmen as a persecuted minority;



How CEOs provide value in health care despite government controls;



Why saying that denying medical claims is violence perpetuates real violence;



How seeing health care as a “right” distorts people’s view of insurance companies;



How socialized medicine turns health care providers into serfs, not traders.




Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s lecture “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business,” also available in her book Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal.



The podcast was recorded on December 13, 2024 and posted on December 18, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Behind-the-Scenes of Ayn Rand’s Second Interview with Mike Wallace</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:07:52 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Brandon Lisi and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the backstory of the newly-published “lost” Mike Wallace-Ayn Rand interview from 1960.



Among the topics covered:




Historical background of the “lost” interview;



Rand’s role as a public intellectual during the 1960s;



How Rand’s intellectual confidence shines through in the interview;



How the Ayn Rand Archives recovered the recording;



Upcoming projects of the Ayn Rand Archives.




Mentioned in this podcast are Rand’s first and fourth interviews with Wallace, Letters of Ayn Rand and the online archive exhibit, and Rand’s letter “To Senator Barry Goldwater”



The podcast was recorded on December 10, 2024 and posted on December 12, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>What Would Mass Deportations Mean for Freedom in America?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 13:35:16 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss Donald Trump’s promise to enact mass deportations of millions of illegal immigrants.



Among the topics covered:




How Trump’s plan to enact mass deportations would have massive costs;



Why the Alien Enemies Act does not justify mass deportations;



How the Alien Enemies Act would grant Trump immense new powers;



Why mass deportations would fail to secure our borders or enhance national security;



Why mass deportations would threaten the rights of American citizens;



The importance of respecting the rule of law while also treating peaceful illegal immigrants justly.




Mentioned in this podcast is the New Ideal podcast episode with Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid “The Absurdity of Calling the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis an 'Invasion'.”



The podcast was recorded on December 5, 2024, and posted on December. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>The Shameless Reporting on Israel’s Wars</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:10:43 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian war in Western media.



Among the topics covered:




The corruption of the Western media’s reporting of the conflict;



Why reporters can’t escape moral judgment;



The anti-Israel bias of the media;



How the conflict could be reported objectively;



How altruism drives the non-objective anti-Israel reporting.




The podcast was recorded on November 18, 2024 and released on November 27, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Do Americans Have an Irrational, Religious Obsession With Work?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:00:27 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Sam Weaver and Tristan de Liège discuss Atlantic writer Derek Thompson’s idea that Americans are afflicted by a religious obsession with work that he calls “workism” and their view of the role of work in human life.



Among the topics covered:




Thompson’s view on work and why it's worth talking about;



Why making work central to one’s life doesn’t entail adopting a religious perspective;



Understanding what causes burnout and lack of fulfillment in work;



The Objectivist perspective on work.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, her essay “Causality Versus Duty”, Gregory Salmieri’s essay “The Act of Valuing (and the Objectivity of Values)” in A Companion to Ayn Rand edited by Allan Gotthelf and Salmieri, and de Liège’s Ayn Rand University course Philosophical Perspectives on Work.



This podcast was recorded on November 7, 2024, and released on November 20, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:45:02 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Elan Journo, Ben Bayer, and Onkar Ghate discuss the 2024 U.S. election results.



Among the topics covered:




Why the Democrats and Kamala Harris didn’t deserve to win;



How Harris should have dealt with the failures of the Biden administration;



The American sense of life vs. the view of the elites;



Why Trump didn’t deserve to win;



The Republican Party’s capitulation to Trumpism;



How policy will change under the new administration;



The Trump campaign’s appeal to the worst in Americans.




The podcast was recorded on November 13, 2024 and posted on November 15, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Abortion Rights and the U.S. Election</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/138177455/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:22:54 -0500</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss Ayn Rand’s radical view on abortion rights and the debates over abortion as an election issue.



Among the topics covered:




Why Ayn Rand defended abortion rights as a matter of individual freedom;



How to understand abortion as an election issue after the Dobbs decision;



How to evaluate recent Democratic arguments for abortion rights;



How state ballot initiatives on abortion fail to uphold women’s right to life;



What the future holds for abortion rights as an election and moral issue.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s entry in the Objectivist Lexicon on “Abortion,” Ayn Rand’s essay “On Living Death,” and Ben Bayer’s essay “Ayn Rand’s Radical Case for Abortion Rights” and book of essays, Why the Right to Abortion is Sacrosanct.



The podcast was recorded on October 21, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Two Ayn Rand Biographies Not Worth Your Time</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/137948239/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:54:47 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Aaron Smith interviews Elan Journo to discuss his critical evaluation of two popular but deeply flawed biographies of Ayn Rand: Jennifer Burns’ Goddess of the Market and Anne C. Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made.



Among the topics covered:




The standards of objectivity that the biographies fail to meet;



The authors’ disregard for how Rand thought of herself and her work;



Examples of the books’ lack of objectivity;



How the authors mishandled the biographies' sources;



Why ignoring Rand’s philosophy makes the books less interesting and intelligible.




Recommended in this podcast are Journo’s articles “‘Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right’ Is Worse than Incompetent” and “Postscript: ‘Ayn Rand and the World She Made’ Is an Exploitative, Tabloid Biography,” and Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri’s book A Companion to Ayn Rand.



The podcast was posted on October 23, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Sixty Years of The Virtue of Selfishness</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/137730942/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:37:54 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Mike Mazza and Sam Weaver discuss the enduring value of The Virtue of Selfishness, a collection of Ayn Rand’s essays on ethics, on its sixtieth anniversary.



Among the topics covered:




Why Ayn Rand wrote and collected the essays in The Virtue of Selfishness;



How Ayn Rand’s essays address questions central to living a good life;



How Ayn Rand presented a radical new way to think about morality;



How Ayn Rand challenges conventional ways of thinking about morality;



How Ayn Rand provided novel ways of evaluating many moral issues.




Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s essay collection The Virtue of Selfishness.



The podcast was recorded on October 8 and released on October 18, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>A Year After October 7: What the Conflict Is Actually About</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/137241021/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:52:10 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss Western misconceptions around October 7 and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.



Among the topics covered:




Why the war is really between Israel and Iran;



How pragmatism effects the West’s inability to understand Iran;



How Palestinian grievances help pragmatists evade Iran’s ideology;



Why most Palestinian grievances are deliberately made up;



How October 7 demonstrates the power of philosophy.




Mentioned in this podcast are Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism and Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands.



The podcast was recorded on October 4, 2024 and posted on October 7, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Space: The New Commercial Frontier</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/137184152/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=17838</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ayn Rand Institute</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:07:21 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Mike Mazza and Tristan de Liège discuss the private space industry and Ayn Rand's philosophical thoughts on the subject.



Among the topics covered:




How state monopolization forestalled the development of the private space industry;



Why Rand saw the Apollo 11 mission as a philosophical, not a political achievement;



How pull peddling threatens space entrepreneurship;



How the goal of making a profit enables progress in the private space industry;



What's wrong with the objection that private business will corrupt science;



How space exploration benefits us.




Recommended in this podcast are Rand’s piece “Apollo 11,” the essay “Common Fallacies About Capitalism” in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, and Keith Lockitch’s “Ayn Rand on Apollo 11.”



The podcast was released on October 2, 2024. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>The Vicious Antitrust Case Against Google</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/136849316/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=17769</guid>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:52:12 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Robertas Bakula discuss the recent antitrust case against Google and what it reveals about the nature of antitrust law.



Among the topics covered:




Why Ayn Rand regarded antitrust law as immoral and un-American;



What evidence the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google is based on;



How antitrust law is non-objective in theory and in practice;



Why the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google is non-objective and unjust;



How antitrust law criminalizes businesses for being successful as such;



How the DOJ’s antitrust case equivocates political and economic power;



Why we need to fight for the moral right of businesses to be successful.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s articles “The Age of Envy,” “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business,” and “Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason,” as well as our previous New Ideal podcast episode “Recent Antitrust Attacks on ‘Big Tech’.”



The podcast premiered on September 25, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Trump and Harris on Immigration</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/136552181/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=17726</guid>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:39:55 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Agustina Vergara Cid and Ben Bayer analyze the anti-American immigration platforms of both the Trump and Harris campaigns.



Among the topics covered:




The tribal and arbitrary nature of Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric;



Why Republicans rely on fear-mongering to push their anti-immigration agenda;



Harris’s shameful evasion of the immigration topic and the racism of her opponents;



How both Democrats and Republicans share a collectivistic view of immigrants;



The role of altruism in shaping the anti-American approach to immigration.




Mentioned in this podcast are Vergara Cid’s essay “Rethink the Term ‘Illegal Immigrant,’” Ayn Rand’s essay “‘Extremism,’ or the Art of Smearing” and her answer to “Should There Be Open Immigration?” Also referenced are the New Ideal Live episodes “The Problem With Pro-Immigration Arguments,” “A Legal Crisis in Immigration,” and “Who Is a Communist?”



The podcast was recorded on September 20, 2024. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>How to Defend Free Speech</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/136423859/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=17704</guid>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:32:19 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Agustina Vergara Cid interviews Gregory Salmieri about his essay “Free Speech as a Right and a Way of Life.”



Among the topics covered:




What free speech is and why a defense of it is needed;



How to respond to acts of de-platforming and cancellation;



Why the right to free speech is absolute;



How public education violates free speech;



Non-governmental violations of free speech;



The difference between thought and action;



When protests and civil disobedience are justified;



How to promote a culture of free speech.




Mentioned in this podcast are Gregory Salmieri’s essay “Free Speech as a Right and a Way of Life” and Tara Smith’s book The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom.



The episode was released on September 18, 2024. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Who is a Communist?</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/136317109/</link>
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      <guid>https://newideal.aynrand.org/?p=17676</guid>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:39:06 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the question of whether Kamala Harris is a communist, and if not, what the real problem with her views is.



Among the topics covered:




The essence of the Marxist ideology;



Why Harris is not a communist;



How the “communist” label helps New Right tribalists hide their own anti-Americanism;



The importance of using concepts precisely;



How mislabeling someone as “communist” whitewashes real communism.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s article “The Left: Old and New” and Sotirakopoulos ’s lecture at AynRandCon Europe 2024 “Lessons From the Intellectual Success of Marxism.”



The podcast was recorded on September 9, 2024 and released on September 14. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>How America’s 9/11 Response Enabled October 7</title>
      <link>https://podcast.show/new_ideal_ari/episode/136231597/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:59:11 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss how the failure of American post-9/11 policy led to the October 7 attacks.



Among the topics covered:




How the failed American response to 9/11 paved the way for October 7;



How religion and altruism undermined the response to Islamic totalitarianism;



How the West lies to itself about the nature of Hamas;



Why there are no voices articulating a positive strategy for the Middle East;



The need to rethink the philosophic principles guiding American foreign policy.




Recommended in this podcast are Ghate and Journo’s book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11 and Journo’s Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism.



The podcast premiered on September 11, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Contrarians of the New Right</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2024 09:32:19 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The new Right’s absurd positions cannot be explained by their adherence to any coherent ideology, but only by their tribal view of the world.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 01:38:20 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Harry Binswanger analyze Alexandra Popoff’s new biography, Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success, particularly its portrayal of Rand as a “Jewish thinker.” They address the false attempt to link Rand’s “ethnicity” to her philosophy.



Among the topics covered:




The determinism of labeling Rand as “influenced” by her ancestry vs. the central role of choice in her thought and life;



The irrelevant evidence offered for Rand’s “ethnic” identity;



Spurious evidence of Rand’s reaction to Soviet injustices in her political thinking;



Why Rand’s novels put plot first and were not merely a vehicle for ideas;



How The Fountainhead is Rand’s rejection of Nietzsche’s ideas;



How Popoff’s book fails to engage with Rand’s rejection of the tribalism central to the concept “ethnicity”;



Why Ayn Rand called herself a Jew in response to Antisemitism;



How Popoff’s book rehashes the same errors of older flawed biographies.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “What Is Capitalism?” and her lecture “Global Balkanization.”



The podcast was broadcast on September 6, 2024. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the Democratic National Committee’s 2024 Platform.



Among the topics covered:




The ambiguity of “freedom” in the Democrats’ rhetoric;



How the platform packages legitimate freedom with the “freedom” to take from others;



How the platform packages equality of rights with metaphysical equality;



How the platform’s egalitarianism is racist and infantilizing;



How altruism and Marxist economics drive the platform’s call for the wealthy to pay their “fair share” in taxes;



What a principled opposition to the DNC platform would look like.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “Man’s Rights” and the July 25 New Ideal podcast episode “Why Socialists Fear the Republican Party Platform.”



The podcast premiered on August 29, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:15:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:22:23 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid criticize various pro-immigration arguments and discuss how they undermine a proper moral defense of immigration.



Among the topics covered:




How conventional pro-immigration arguments are based on altruism and collectivism;



How altruism leads to the infantilization of refugees and failure to advocate for economic migrants;



How diversity quotas perpetuate racism in the name of fighting it;



How the “economic case” for immigration reduces immigrants to servants;



The false assumption that the interests of Americans and immigrants are inherently at odds;



How anti-immigrant advocates have set the terms of the immigration debate;



How to think about the claim that pro-immigration advocates are seeking to dilute American values.




The podcast premiered on August 22, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer interviews Paul Taske, associate director of litigation at NetChoice, to discuss the Supreme Court’s recent NetChoice decision and what it means for the future of free speech in America.



Among the topics covered:




The Supreme Court’s decision to send the question about regulating social media platforms back to the federal district courts;



Why content moderation is not censorship;



How NetChoice responds to objections from the Court’s minority;



How the Florida and Texas laws violate the right not to speak;



Why NetChoice chose to make a facial challenge to the laws;



How NetChoice responds to the idea that social media platforms are common carriers;



How to think about the issue of whether the government has an interest in regulating social media platforms;



How to evaluate other disagreements between the majority and the minority.




Recommended in this podcast are Greg Salmieri’s article “Free Speech as a Right and a Way of Life” in Tara Smith’s The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom and the previous New Ideal podcast episode “Does Social Media Censor?: A Conversation with Steve Simpson.”



The podcast premiered on August 15, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:06:32 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Mike Mazza discuss why the trans movement is essentially religious and unscientific.



Among the topics covered:




The religious character of the trans movement;



Why many of its scientific claims are dishonest;



How religious conservatives reinforce the movement’s irrationality;



Why debates about gender have become so contentious;



How the movement relies on force and smears to advance its agenda;



Evidence that the movement is uninterested in trans people's well-being;



Why the science about gender dysphoria is far from settled.




Recommended in this podcast are the previous New Ideal Live episodes on “Kathleen Stock’s Reasoned Critique of Gender Ideology” and “‘What Is a Woman?’ and Gender War Tribalism.”



The podcast was released on August 8, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:42:04 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Sam Weaver discuss how the introduction of both the Ten Commandments and DEI into the public school system represents an assault on intellectual freedom.



Among the topics covered:




How recent public-school mandates in Louisiana and Oklahoma use force to promote religion;



Why the mandates are an assault on the First Amendment and our founding ideals;



How the left pushes its ideas in public schools;



Why efforts on both sides should be understood as an assault on intellectual freedom;



Why the public education system necessarily leads to ideological disputes;



How tribalism drives religious mandates.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “The Establishing of an Establishment” in Philosophy: Who Needs It, Tara Smith’s book The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom, Harry Binswanger’s article “The Ten Commandments vs. America,” and the New Ideal Live episode on “What’s Wrong with California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate?”



The podcast was recorded on August 7, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:28:47 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer examines a discussion between Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, explaining why so-called secular humanists have been unable to offer a rational moral alternative to religion.



Among the topics covered:




Ali's rationalizations for her religious conversion;



Why Western civilization is not purely Christian;



How religious belief relies on arbitrary claims;



Dawkins’ failure to offer a rational moral alternative to Christianity;



Why a rational morality requires an uncompromising commitment to truth.




Mentioned in this podcast are Bayer’s articles “The Old Morality of New Religions,” “Debunking the Supernaturalism That Haunts Secular Ethics,” and Onkar Ghate’s essay “Finding Morality and Happiness Without God.”



The podcast was recorded on July 31, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.



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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss how the Republican National Convention’s platform has turned away from its traditional appeal to small government and turned instead towards adopting many of the big government policies that socialists envy.



Among the topics covered:




The RNC platform on energy policy, regulations, and Israel;



The RNC platform on entitlement programs, industrial policy, and tariffs;



The Republican Party’s unprincipled view of political and economic freedom;



JD Vance as a symbol of the Republican Party’s turn away from freedom;



How much the Republican Party has turned away from freedom in twelve years;



The new Republican Party’s turn to collectivism and central planning.




Mentioned in this podcast is the New Ideal article, “Meet the Conservative Authoritarians” by Elan Journo.



The podcast premiered on July 25, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:58:07 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the Trump assassination attempt and the violent climate of tribalism in our culture.



Among the topics covered:




The evil of using physical force to settle political disagreements;



Why it’s important to comment on this event;



The increasing normalization of political violence in our culture;



Why it is important to discuss Trump’s failure to discourage political violence;



The philosophical root of today’s climate – tribalism;



How tribalism is fueled by the mixed economy and attacks on reason;



Manifestations of political tribalism in responses to the assassination attempt;



How tribal thinking differs from the rational pursuit of truth;



The role of emotions and conspiracies in tribal thinking;



How to be objective in one’s thinking about political events;



Why the cause of rising tribalism is philosophical, not political;



The advantages of one-on-one conversations compared to group conversations.




Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s essay “The Missing Link,” and her Ford Hall Forum lectures “Global Balkanization” and “A Nation’s Unity.”



This episode was recorded on July 17, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch previous episodes here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:41:28 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss historian Niall Ferguson’s “We’re All Soviets Now,” a viral essay about American economic and cultural decline.



Among the topics covered:




Ferguson’s argument that America is following the path of the late USSR;



The disanalogies between America and the Soviet Union;



Ferguson’s blindness to the role of ideas in his comparative analysis;



How Ferguson’s doomsaying prepares the grounds for authoritarianism;



How some of Ferguson’s valid criticisms misidentify root causes of American decline.




The podcast premiered on July 11, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:15:16 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Adi Dynar discuss the Supreme Court's overturning of its 1984 Chevron doctrine, which held that courts should sometimes defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of a vague law.



Among the topics covered:




How Chevron gave the executive branch the power to make law, thereby incentivizing the passing of vague laws;



How Chevron made it harder for individuals to challenge regulations;



The majority opinion’s insufficient stress on the issue of the separation of powers;



Why the argument that courts lack factual expertise is a smokescreen;



How the practice of deference relies on a presumption in favor of government power;



The Court's failure to articulate the principle of the rule of law;



Why it is unlikely that this decision will cause legal chaos.




The podcast was recorded on July 3, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:27:32 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal, Mike Mazza responds to an episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk, in which neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky argues against the existence of free will.



Among the topics covered:




The meaning and stakes of the free will debate;



Why determinists are wrong to focus on atomistic choices about preferences:



How free will is established philosophically and presupposed by science.




The podcast premiered on June 27, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:13:03 -0400</pubDate>
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In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo interviews Robert Mayhew, Tara Smith, and Greg Salmieri at the Objectivist summer conference in Anaheim, California. They celebrate the release of Smith's new book on the First Amendment and the republication of the essays in Mayhew's series on Ayn Rand's novels, discussing the importance of written content in advancing an intellectual movement.



Among the topics covered:




The role of books in fueling an intellectual movement;



How the essay collections came about and its importance in Rand scholarship;



Notable pieces from the essay collections;



Celebrating Smith’s book on the First Amendment;



The failures of the free speech movement;



Rand’s distinctive perspective on intellectual freedom;



The future of Objectivist intellectual work;



Questions on pursuing an intellectual career, studying Rand, and the First Amendment.




Mentioned in this podcast are Smith’s book The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom and Mayhew’s essay collections on Rand’s novels.



The podcast was recorded on June 16, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 03:43:11 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo interviews Tara Smith about her new book Egoism Without Permission: The Moral Psychology of Ayn Rand’s Ethics.



Among the topics covered:




What Rand means (and doesn't mean) by egoism and the virtues;



Why  having desires and owning your emotions are crucial to having a good life, even though emotionalism is bad;



Why the independent person does not seek permission for pursuing his happiness;



Why self-esteem must be earned and sustained;



Why self-interest means being interested in one’s values;



How egoists can still fall prey to accidental sacrifices;



The importance of introspection for egoism and flourishing;



Smith’s message in Egoism Without Permission.




Mentioned in the discussion are Tara Smith’s books Egoism Without Permission: The Moral Psychology of Ayn Rand’s Ethics and Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist and Leonard Peikoff’s Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.



The podcast premiered on June 12, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:32:26 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Robertas Bakula interviews three of ARI's fellows to discuss their upcoming talks at Objectivist Summer Conference in Anaheim, California, which is being held from June 13 to 18.



Among the topics covered:




Jason Rheins’ talk “Socratic Wisdom,” concerning the value of knowing your own ignorance;



Tristan de Liège’s talk “How to Value Friendship,” which will explore how the principles of Objectivism can help us deepen our friendships;



Mike Mazza’s talk “Karl Popper’s Rejection of Induction,” which will address how Popper’s widely embraced philosophy of science actually undercuts the rationality of science.




Virtual passes to the conference remain open for purchase through June 18.



The podcast premiered on June 7, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:52:23 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Sam Weaver and Onkar Ghate discuss the nature and significance of the Trump phenomenon.



Among the topics covered:




Why Trump’s base of support is significant;



Why it’s important to study the Trump phenomenon;



The meaning and consequences of Trump’s 2016 election



Trump’s anti-intellectual character;



Understanding Trump’s persistent support;



Analyzing Trump’s presidency;



The current state of political violence in America;



How Democrats and tribalism enable Trump;



Bernie Sanders, Trump, and the resurgence of populism.




Mentioned in this podcast are Onkar Ghate’s articles "One Small Step for Dictatorship” and “The Anti-Intellectuality of Donald Trump: Why Ayn Rand Would Have Despised a President Trump,” and two podcast episodes: “The Storming of the Capitol” and “The 2024 Elections.”



The podcast was recorded on June 5, 2024 . Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:26:36 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the Libertarian Party’s (LP) convention, especially the speeches by Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and what it reveals about the nature of the libertarian movement.



Among the topics covered:




Why chaos in the Libertarian Party is a result of disunity about what liberty even is;



Why the one point of unity in the LP is their stance against Israel’s war in Gaza;



How the libertarian movement’s lack of a coherent positive ideology led to the LP’s decision to invite Trump and Kennedy;



How the LP’s acceptance of Kennedy despite his advocacy of statist policies reveals the libertarian movement’s lack of a coherent set of pro-freedom policies;



How Trump’s convention speech reveals a willingness to support anarchistic authoritarianism within the LP;



How Americans who believe in liberty are betrayed by the LP.




Recommended in this podcast are the New Ideal Live episodes “Libertarian Apologists for Putin” and “Libertarianism: Big Tent or Big Mess?”



ARI has a philosophical mission, and as such its function is to analyze current events from that framework. Given our 501c3 status, our function is not to advocate for or against particular candidates.



The podcast was recorded on May 30, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 16:04:22 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss why and how DEI has become so dominant in American institutions, from universities to corporate businesses, despite its questionable nature.



Among the topics covered:




How DEI is sold as a form of justice for historically marginalized groups;



How “diversity” relies on a package deal;



How “inclusion” results in moral relativism;



How “equity” means equality of results irrespective of merit;



Why business leaders are unable to resist DEI despite its impracticality.




This episode was broadcast live on May 22, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <title>Harry Binswanger Comments on the Columbia Protests – 1968 and Today</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 15:58:59 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer interviews Harry Binswanger, a philosopher and longtime friend of Ayn Rand’s, about his observations as a graduate student at Columbia during the 1968 protests and how those protests compare to those taking place now at Columbia and other campuses.



Among the topics covered:




How the 1968 protesters hoped to bring about a communist revolution;



Why the university tolerated the protesters and ceded to their demands;



Binswanger’s role in opposing the activists;



Ayn Rand’s analysis of the student protest phenomenon;



The long-term legacy of the student protests;



Why today’s protests are worse than the 1968 protests.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s 1968 radio commentary “The Student Rebellion at Columbia” and Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate’s article “Ending Campus Protests Protects Free Speech.”



The podcast premiered on May 15, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 13:42:19 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer is interviewed by Ziemowit Gowin about his article on the phenomenon of academic plagiarism following the resignation of Harvard University president, Claudine Gay. They discuss why academia’s greater interest in combating issues such as sexism and racism over academic dishonesty is consistent with their deeper view of morality.



Among the topics covered:




Bayer's personal experience combating student plagiarism as a former professor;



How the morality of altruism creates an indifference to academic dishonesty;



How plagiarists cheat themselves of the value of knowing and living in reality;



How altruism prevents us from seeing how plagiarists harm those they deceive;



Why we need moral virtues, like honesty, for achieving personal values in life;



How academic plagiarism relates to the deeper topic of individual value creation.




Recommended in this podcast are Bayer’s “The Real Problem with Plagiarism,” “Why Scientific Progress in Ethics Is Frozen,” and “The Old Morality of the New Religions,” and the Ayn Rand Lexicon’s entry on “Honesty.”



The podcast was recorded on May 16, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the ongoing anti-Israel campus protests and analyze the demand that universities divest from Israel.



Among the topics covered:




How the divestment crusade is animated by hatred of Israel, not concern for the Palestinians;



The dishonest claim that Israel practices apartheid;



How the protesters whitewash Hamas' vicious treatment of homosexuals;



Why Christianity is the root of the celebration of Palestinian weakness and the hatred of Israeli prosperity;



The US government's outrageous financial support for corrupt organizations;



Why the violation of Palestinians’ rights by some fanatical Jews doesn’t amount to apartheid.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and her essays “For the New Intellectual” and “The Age of Envy,” Peter Schwartz’s “Hamas and the Tyranny of Need,” and Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.



The podcast was recorded on May 8, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:10:51 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Milton Friedman’s impact as a public intellectual and how his advocacy of the free market differed from Ayn Rand’s radical philosophical case for capitalism.



Among the topics covered:




Why Milton Friedman is an essentially positive influence on free market thought;



How Friedman’s moral conventionality reinforced the ideas he tried to oppose;



The importance of stating the ideal when advocating for gradual reform;



Why questions of morality are at the root of economic issues;



How Friedman’s amoralism and pragmatism blinded him to the statists’ motivation;



Ayn Rand’s critical evaluation of Friedman;



Why the abolitionist movement is a model for moving the world toward freedom.




Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate and Yaron Brook’s course “Cultural Movements: Creating Change” and Ayn Rand’s essay “Tax Credits for Education.”



The podcast was recorded on May 2, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss the protests on university campuses against Israel’s war of self-defense and what they say about the state of our culture.



Among the topics covered:




Why the anti-Israeli campus protests are rightly labelled as being pro-Hamas;



How there is a double standard in the public’s response to mass protests in general;



How the anti-Israeli protests are motivated by altruism and hatred of Israel’s success;



Why the campus protests are a crisis of education rather than of free speech;



How the mass occupation of public spaces violate our rights.




Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s 1968 radio talk “The Student “Rebellion” at Columbia University.”



The podcast was recorded on April 24, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Mike Mazza and Aaron Smith discuss Mazza’s recently published article about why academic philosophers tend to get Rand’s ideas wrong so frequently and the parochialism involved in many of their critiques.



Among the topics covered:




What Mazza aimed to explain in this article;



Why responding to academic critics is important;



What it means for philosophers to engage in parochialism;



How the methods of academic philosophers are poorly suited to understanding Rand;



The inductive structure of Rand’s arguments;



The multiple factors behind philosophers’ dismissal of Rand’s ideas;



Why the parochialism issue is particularly important to identify;



Why historians of philosophy tend not to make the mistake of parochialism;



How even Objectivists can be parochial and what they should do to avoid it.




Mentioned in this podcast are the New Ideal articles “Why Can’t Professional Philosophers Get Rand Right?” by Mazza and “Why Massimo Pigliucci Gets Ayn Rand Wrong” by Smith, plus the book A Companion to Ayn Rand edited by Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri (specifically Chapter 1, “An Introduction to the Study of Ayn Rand”). The podcast was recorded on April 18, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:37:35 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo offers initial commentary on Iran’s April 13 attack on Israel.



Among the topics covered:




How Iran’s attack on Israel is a consequence of its Islamic and imperial nature;



How America’s failure to recognise and confront Iran’s nature emboldens it;



Why America and Israel are morally justified in replacing Iran’s evil regime.




Mentioned in this podcast are Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo’s edited collection of essays Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: from George W. Bush to Barrack Obama and Beyond, and Leonard Peikoff’s article “’End States Who Sponsor Terrorism’.”



The podcast was recorded on April 13, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo give a preview of ARI’s 2024 presidential election coverage and comment on some of the major political issues at stake in the election.



Among the topics covered:




How ARI uses Objectivism to analyze elections and the wider political culture;



What the Trump phenomenon says about the state of our political culture;



The unprincipled nature of the political responses to recent domestic and foreign crises;



Symptoms of growing political tribalism, such as people’s increasing willingness to protest;



How bipartisan attacks on tech companies reveal a deeper turn against producers.




Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate’s New Ideal article “One Small Step for Dictatorship."



The podcast was recorded on April 11, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo analyze Argentinian President Javier Milei’s interview at AynRandCon in Buenos Aires.



Among the topics covered:




How the event fell short of ARI’s goal of illuminating points of agreement and disagreement with Milei;



How to evaluate Milei as a President, considering his strange statements about abortion and mysticism;



The contradiction between Milei’s ostensible rejection of collectivism and his administration's position on a military draft;



How Milei’s motivation for anarchism is easier to excuse than that of other libertarians;



Milei’s troubling rhetoric targeting journalists and dismissal of criticism;



What is right and wrong about Milei’s defense of producers;



Ayn Rand’s possible influence on Milei’s thinking about the nihilistic motivation of socialism.




The podcast was recorded on April 8, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.



Note: The original version of this podcast (which still appears on some platforms) relayed statements of facts about some of Milei's personal beliefs and positions that were not born out by the facts. These have been cut from the YouTube version. We regret the error. Also, Milei's position on the draft is not necessarily the same as that discussed by his ministers.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Sam Weaver and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent California ethnic studies mandate. They evaluate the ideological nature of the curriculum and its assault on knowledge, the philosophical ideas that made it possible, and why it must be opposed intellectually.



Among the topics covered:




How ethnic studies emerged from an activist assault on the idea of objective truth;



Evidence that the proposed curriculum is non-objective;



How lessons on "narratives" encourage prejudice among students;



The egalitarian roots of the curriculum and its elevation of the primitive over science;



Why the government monopoly on education causes violations of intellectual freedom.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essays “Global Balkanization,” “The Age of Envy,” and “Fairness Doctrine for Education,” as well as the previous podcast episode “Political Battles Over Education.”



The podcast was recorded on April 4, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the recent United Nations “ceasefire” resolution. They argue it is yet another example of the West’s moral reluctance to condemn evil regimes and to provide a principled defense of Israel’s right to self-defense.



Among the topics covered:




The fact that Hamas seeks to destroy Israel because it is a bastion of civilization;



Why the UN resolution is a pro-Hamas document;



How the UN’s policy of moral neutrality enables evil regimes;



Why the United States is morally complicit in whitewashing Hamas;



Trump and Biden’s unprincipled support for Israel;



Why defeating Hamas requires the ideological deprogramming of the Palestinian population.




Mentioned in this podcast are Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Agustina Vergara Cid’s essay  “Ayn Rand’s Radical View of the United Nations,” and Bayer’s “We Ignore the Unconditional Right to Self-Defense at Our Peril.”



The podcast was recorded on March 26, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:00:57 -0400</pubDate>
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In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the recent announcement of the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Apple and analyze the injustice of criminalizing a company for giving customers an experience they want.



Among the topics covered:




Why the DOJ’s antitrust case against Apple is significant to all American business;



How Apple is targeted because of its business success, not its failures;



How antitrust is destructive by design and how it stifled Microsoft;



Ayn Rand’s analysis of antitrust as the “rule of unreason”;



Why you should call your legislator if you support businesses like Apple.




Mentioned in this podcast are Onkar Ghate’s essay “Drop the Antitrust Case Against  Microsoft” and the New Ideal Live episode “Recent Antitrust Attacks on "Big Tech,” Ayn Rand’s lecture “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business” (also available in essay form in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal) and her essay “Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason,” which can be found in The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought.



The podcast was recorded on March 22, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:32:05 -0400</pubDate>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the state of the immigration debate between Democrats and Republicans. They show how both parties appeal to fear and collectivism in their opposition to immigration, and explain why a proper solution to the border crisis requires policies that favor free economic migration.



Among the topics covered:




How both Democrats and Republicans are hostile to immigration;



How the rights of American citizens are infringed by the immigration system;



How Americans, individually, welcome immigrants despite political fearmongering;



Biden's unserious focus on tougher security over free economic migration;



Why a concern with individual criminals entering the country is not an argument for restricting legal immigration;



The calculated dishonesty of Senator Katie Britt's response to Biden’s State of the Union Address;



Why Americans should work hard to protect their own thinking from tribalism.




The podcast was recorded on March 21, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos examine President Biden’s State of the Union address and what it reveals about the goals of today’s political leadership. They discuss the anti-mind premise driving both political tribes and how it leads to statist policies that destroy wealth and create economic hardship.



Among the topics covered:




Understanding the values of the current political leadership;



Biden’s antipathy to the mind’s role in economic value creation;



How contempt for the mind restricts and destroys the pharmaceutical industry;



“Shrinkflation” as a distraction from the damage caused by anti-profit state policies;



Statist policy effects on supply and demand as the cause of rising prices;



How to think about “junk” fees and what underlies attacks on them;



The true objective of Biden’s “Strike Force” as rule by fear and force;



The anti-producer and anti-consumer motivations of Biden’s “Strike Force”;



Why Republicans’ only response is to change the subject to the border crisis.




Mentioned in this podcast are the interview “Understanding the Roots of the New Inflation: With Rob Tarr,” Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer’s New Ideal Live episode “The Pure Hatred of the New Antitrust,” and Ayn Rand’s lecture “Egalitarianism and Inflation.”



The podcast was recorded on March 13, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer responds to a PragerU video which argues that moral wisdom requires a “fear of God.” Bayer argues that a fear of God undercuts moral wisdom and is driven by a fear of the intellectual independence that moral wisdom requires.



Among the topics covered:




The proposal that a fear of God provides the basis for an objective morality;



How the fear of God makes objective moral guidance impossible;



Why being motivated by fear undercuts our love of moral wisdom and virtue;



How faith is driven by a fear of the independence that moral wisdom requires.




Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate’s article “Finding Morality and Happiness Without God.” 



The podcast was recorded on March 5, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here



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In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo comments on Zack Snyder’s recent conversation with Joe Rogan about his admiration for Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and why his film adaptation was rejected by Netflix. Journo discusses why so many creators like Snyder find Rand’s novels so compelling yet she is still considered “taboo,” the philosophical motives behind the hostility towards Rand, and the immense value readers can get from her heroes.



Among the topics covered:




Snyder's account of how the entertainment industry sees Rand as taboo;



Why The Fountainhead resonates so much with active-minded audiences;



What Snyder gets wrong about The Fountainhead’s origin story;



Why intellectuals regard Rand as taboo;



How Rand's heroes challenge our culture's deepest philosophical assumptions;



The value readers can gain from Rand’s works.




Recommended in this podcast are the previous New Ideal Live episodes “The Dramatic Story Behind The Fountainhead Movie” and “What Jonah Goldberg’s Rejection of Ayn Rand Reveals,” and Journo’s articles “When Tribal Journalists Try to ‘Cancel’ Ayn Rand,” and “Ayn Rand’s Devastating Critique of ‘Liberals.’”



The podcast was recorded on March 8, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Ziemowit Gowin discuss how the Biden administration’s altruistic foreign policy undermines Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas.



Among the topics covered:




How America’s inconsistent support of Israel subverts its war of self-defense;



How the morality of altruism leads people to unjustly blame Israel for the fallout of Hamas’ attack;



Why the altruistic decision to airdrop aid into Gaza amounts to enabling the enemy;



Why calls for an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire are delusional and immoral;



Why attempts at a “two-state solution” are among the causes of the current conflict;



Why the conflict will continue if Israel does not decisively defeat Hamas.




Mentioned in this podcast are three books: Winning the Unwinnable War (edited by Journo), Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism (edited by Journo and Onkar Ghate), and What Justice Demands (written by Journo). For more of ARI’s resources on America’s middle eastern foreign policy, go to https://bit.ly/arimideastresources.



The podcast was recorded on March 6, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the philosophical and legal implications of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) should be considered children.



Among the topics covered:




The facts and reasoning behind the Alabama Supreme Court case;



How the court’s decision is a logical result of anti-abortion reasoning;



Why conception or human DNA is insufficient for individual rights;



Why it would be inconsistent to make a legal exception for embryos;



Whether this case is a violation of the separation of Church and State;



The negative consequences of this case on reproductive rights.




Mentioned in the episode are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on abortion, Ben Bayer’s book Why the Right to Abortion is Sacrosanct, and Ben Bayer’s essay “Science Without Philosophy Can’t Resolve Abortion Debate.”



This episode was broadcast live on February 28, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.]]></description>
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Mike Mazza and Ziemowit Gowin discuss Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin, and Carlson’s attempt to undercut America by whitewashing life in Russia.



Among the topics covered:




Mainstream media’s reaction to Carlson’s interview;



How interviewing dictators gives them an undeserved sense of moral legitimacy;



How the interview only repeated Putin’s stale propaganda;



Why it’s absurd to think that the only way to be informed about events in Russia and Ukraine is to interview a dictator;



That Carlson’s motive is discredit America by whitewashing life in Russia;



Carlson’s equivocation between killing political opponents and genuine criminals;



The conservative rejection of abstract principles;



The descent of the new generation of conservative influencers into religion and authoritarianism.




This episode was broadcast live on February 22, 2024. Mentioned in the episode are “One Small Step Toward Dictatorship” by Onkar Ghate and “Putin’s War Embodies National Conservatism’s Ideology” by Ben Bayer and Elan Journo.



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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the problem of tribalism in our political culture. Exploring issues such as the Israel-Hamas war and the debates over immigration and abortion, they show how both the left and right are guilty of an anti-conceptual mentality that has degraded our political discourse.



Among the topics covered:




How tribalism has made today's political atmosphere toxic;



The left's tribal support for Palestine;



How the tribal mentality is motivated by opposition to a common enemy, not shared principles;



The right's tribal fearmongering on immigration;



How tribalism has infiltrated the issue of abortion on both sides;



How attacks on reason fuel today's groupthink;



What ARI does to take a principled philosophical stance on political issues.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essays “Global Balkanization” and “The Missing Link,” Bayer’s talk “Tribalism in Today’s Political Culture,” and Sotirakopoulos’ book Identity Politics and Tribalism: The New Culture Wars.



The podcast was recorded on February 14, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss the cultural significance of two seemingly unrelated events: the bipartisan congressional hearings on online child safety and the conservative backlash to Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce. They argue that the attacks on Mark Zuckerberg and on Swift's successful businesses reveal a tribal mentality that hates the good for being the good.



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The true purpose of the online child safety hearing;



The Senate Committee’s shameful intimidation of Zuckerberg;



How Section 230 is used to hold tech companies liable for users' criminal behavior;



Why the senators' threats to control businesses are anti-law and anti-American;



How Republicans use anti-intellectual tactics to pass authoritarian controls;



How the hatred against Taylor Swift is driven by the same anti-success mentality;



The tribal misogyny aimed at Swift;



Why conspiracy fantasies seek political pandering, not the truth;



How Ayn Rand’s “Age of Envy” can help combat today’s tribal trends.




Mentioned in this podcast are Rand’s essays “The Age of Envy” (found in The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution) and “Selfishness Without a Self.”



The podcast was recorded on February 7, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer interviews Harry Binswanger about Ayn Rand’s philosophical approach to life and the invaluable lessons we can learn from the way she lived.



Among the topics covered:




How Rand integrated philosophy into her life;



How Rand used philosophy to understand herself and others;



What it was like to work with Rand on philosophical projects;



How philosophy empowered Rand to continue learning throughout her life;



What surprising conclusions Rand came to through her philosophy;



How Rand helped Binswanger develop as a philosopher.




Mentioned in this episode are "100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand" by Scott McConnell and "Ayn Rand's Philosophic Achievement (Part 1)" by Harry Binswanger.



This episode was recorded on February 2, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Mike Mazza and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss and debunk as baseless three commonly heard myths about Ayn Rand: that she demonized the poor, that she uncritically praised the rich, and that she died penniless and hypocritically accepted Social Security at the end of her life.



Among the topics covered:




Why the claim that Rand hated the poor has no plausibility;



Rand’s focus on ambition and productive ability;



Why Rand didn’t praise being rich as such;



Rand’s praise for true wealth creation, including the creation of knowledge;



Why the claim that Ayn Rand died penniless defies all evidence;



Whether it was hypocritical for Rand to accept Social Security payments;



Why accepting government benefits can count as restitution;



Why the false charge of hypocrisy reveals an underlying rejection of idealism.




Mentioned in this episode and relevant to the discussion is Onkar Ghate’s article “What Gave Ayn Rand the Moral Right to Collect Social Security?”



The podcast was recorded on January 24, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo interviews Coleman Hughes on his new book The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. They discuss Hughes’ case for colorblindness, his critique of the “anti-racist” movement, and his views about why we need to abandon race as a meaningful category. Hughes also comments on Ayn Rand's individualist analysis of racism.



Among the topics covered:




How the ideal of colorblindness disappeared from American intellectual life;



How the concept of colorblindness has been misunderstood;



How the “anti-racist” movement perverted the concept of "racism";



The meaning of the attempts to suppress Hughes’ TED talk;



Hughes’ evaluation of Ayn Rand’s individualist critique of racism;



How to think about racism today;



Pinning down the vague notion of “systemic racism”;



How universities push a perverted conception of diversity;



How the “anti-racist” movement craves power, not justice;



Why race says nothing about a person's identity.




Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s essay “Racism.”



The podcast was recorded on January 23, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://youtu.be/_d0Xp0NhxC8




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss international reactions to several recent developments around the world that reveal the power of morality in human affairs.



Among the topics covered:




How the retreat of the good encourages evil around the world;



How the “genocide” hearings against Israel exemplify the UN’s equation of good and evil regimes;



Why Israel’s deference to the UN enables its own destruction;



How the United Nations is designed to whitewash evil regimes;



Why the Houthis have significant geopolitical influence;



How the Houthis appeal to morality while the West wallows in moral uncertainty;



How the West’s moral cowardice encourages its enemies;



How America’s refusal to call out China as evil emboldens China;



How the West betrayed Taiwan with a muted response to its elections.




This episode was recorded on January 17, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Daniel Schwartz discuss the problem of plagiarism in our culture. They argue that although academic institutions assume that cheating is wrong, many academics have no intellectual argument as to why plagiarism is morally wrong or why it is necessary to uphold standards of honesty.



Among the topics covered:




Background on the universities’ sacrifice of academic integrity to DEI;



How plagiarism is a widespread problem in the culture;



How some academics view plagiarism as neither significant nor necessarily wrong;



The intellectuals’ failure to explain why plagiarism is morally wrong;



The fact that today's ethics offers no guidance for questions about the self;



Why the value of one's own education is compromised by cheating;



How Ayn Rand’s view of honesty can illuminate what’s wrong with plagiarism.




Recommended in this podcast are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on honesty, Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist, Bayer’s “Why Today’s Ethics Offers No Real Guidance,” and the previous New Ideal episode “The Real Scandal Underlying Campus Antisemitism.”



The podcast was recorded on January 10, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Mike Mazza discuss the emergence of the manosphere. They explore issues such as why it appeals to young men seeking guidance, how it reflects the best and worst elements of our intellectual culture, and what a positive philosophical alternative requires.



Among the topics covered:




Defining the manosphere;



Its devolution from a self-help movement to a player in the culture wars;



How the manosphere appeals to young men deprived of philosophical guidance;



The deterministic and authoritarian tendencies of today’s manosphere;



The toxicity of encouraging young men to adopt tribalism and rationalizations about their own failures;



Why a positive alternative to the manosphere should be more philosophical.




The podcast was recorded on January 4, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this end-of-year episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos celebrate another year of unique cultural analysis and commentary by the intellectuals at the Ayn Rand Institute.



Among the topics covered:




How our unique perspective on the culture flows from the principled philosophical framework developed by Ayn Rand;



Why we do not fight primarily against bad ideas, but for positive ideals;



How Rand’s understanding of the power of philosophy enabled her to predict the present decline of Western civilization;



How our analysis at New Ideal is shaped by our conviction that philosophical ideas have the power to shape human affairs, for good or ill;



Why we aim to reach active-minded people who are open to new and challenging ideas;



Our appreciation for all the donors who make our work at ARI possible.




This episode was recorded on December 22, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2023 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Sam Weaver discuss the humanities "crisis" in American universities. They explain the most common arguments in defense of the humanities, why they are not compelling, and the vital role that these studies play in an individual's life and the culture.



Among the topics covered:




How the humanities curricula shape our intellectual culture;



Why the mere reduction of humanities majors does not necessarily imply a "crisis";



Why learning critical thinking skills is not unique to the humanities;



How the emphasis on "empathy" in the humanities leads to a dangerous relativism;



Why focusing on citizenship is too impersonal and uncritical;



Why saying that the humanities have intrinsic value is a non-argument;



Philosopher Agnes Callard’s confession of ignorance about the value of the humanities;



The humanities' role in guiding a successful human life;



The universities’ failure to give students answers to life’s questions.




Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essays “For the New Intellectual” and “The Psycho-Epistemology of Art,” and the previous New Ideal Live episode “The Real Scandal Underlying Campus Antisemitism.”



The podcast was recorded on December 20, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss the recent congressional hearings of the presidents of America’s most prestigious universities about the explosion of campus protests. They question whether the charge of hypocrisy is a proper conceptualization of the problem, and propose that it’s the deeper anti-justice worldview that explains the state of campuses today.



Among the topics covered:




Background on the president’s answers to Rep. Stefanik’s questions;



Why the controversy is not about free speech but the dominant moral standards taught in universities;



How campus antisemitism is driven by altruism and its hatred of success;



How campus protests are rooted in the anti-justice morality of egalitarianism;



The nihilistic parallels between the campus protests and the George Floyd protests;



Why the charge of hypocrisy leaves unchallenged the universities’ systemic egalitarianism;



How tribalism motivates both political and campus antisemitism.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ghate and Journo’s previous podcast “What Antisemitism Is” and their op-ed “More University Donors Should ‘Go Galt’.”



The podcast was recorded on Dec 13, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Nikos Sotirakopoulos interviews Don Watkins about his new book Effective Egoism: An Individualist’s Guide to Pride, Purpose, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Nikos and Don discuss the need for moral guidance on how to make the most of your life, why we need principles to guide our actions, and six lessons for living your best life.



Among the topics covered:




How philosophy can give you a framework for living your best life;



Why your life matters;



How to take charge of your life;



How to pursue your happiness;



Why you need reason to pursue happiness;



How to create deep and lasting values;



Making the case for egoism;



Why pleasure is necessary for a meaningful life.




The podcast was recorded on December 7, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU_Z7edBO8k




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss recent controversies surrounding immigrants and allegations that they are abusing the welfare state, and they explain what an objective approach to thinking about immigration and welfare involves.



Among the topics covered:




How to evaluate the purported data about immigrants and use of welfare services;



How to avoid falling into pragmatism and collectivism in the debate on immigration and the welfare state;



The abundance of misinformation about immigration and where it comes from;



The perverse views of both the right and the left on this issue;



The migrant crisis in New York City;



The importance of distinguishing between asylum seekers and immigrants who come seeking a better life;



The welcoming attitude toward immigrants in America that the welfare state threatens;



Milton Friedman’s views on immigration and the welfare state;



The proposal of preventing immigrants from accessing the welfare state;



The importance of making it easier for immigrants to work.




The podcast was recorded on December 1, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the recent election of Javier Milei as President of Argentina.



Among the topics covered:




How Peronism turned Argentina from one of the richest countries in the world to one of the poorest;



Milei’s academic background and turn towards libertarianism;



The extent to which Milei is actually influenced by Ayn Rand;



The flaws in Milei’s mongrel libertarian philosophy, including his support for anarchism;



Milei’s opposition to abortion;



Why the path towards liberty in Argentina is precarious, but there is room for cautious optimism.




Mentioned in this episode and relevant to the discussion are “A New Ideal for Latin America” by Agustina Vergara Cid and “Libertarianism: Big Tent or Big Mess?,” a previous episode of the New Ideal podcast.



This episode was broadcast live on November 22, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 10:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss the recent rise of antisemitism. They analyze why the conventional view of religious or racial animus is insufficient in explaining the explosion of overt hatred, how Ayn Rand’s identification of “hatred of the good for being the good” exposes the true nature of modern antisemitism, and what is needed to rationally combat it.



Among the topics covered:




Why today’s antisemitism can’t be understood in religious or racial terms;



The anti-effort mentality driving the hatred towards Israel;



The antisemitic hostility against Israel’s culture of achievement;



How Islamic totalitarianism and tribalism rationalize their hatred of Israel;



How DEI's egalitarian philosophy enables antisemitism;



The role of religious tribalism in fueling antisemitic prejudice;



The long-term educational vision needed to uproot antisemitism.




Mentioned in this podcast are Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Journo and Ghate’s op-ed “More University Donors Should ‘Go Galt,’” and Ayn Rand’s essays “Global Balkanization,” “The Age of Envy,” and “An Untitled Letter.”



The podcast was recorded on Nov 21, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer offer the Ayn Rand Institute’s response to Jordan Peterson’s recent attack on Ayn Rand on his podcast of November 16, 2023.



Among the topics covered:




Peterson’s recent anti-Enlightenment conservative activism;



Why Rand’s view of self-interest is not hedonistic but values-based;



How Peterson argues for collectivism from the non-existence of an enduring self;



How Peterson sells collectivism by packaging sacrifice with individual responsibility;



Peterson’s impoverished view of the free market (and of science);



His shallow reading of Rand’s characters as shallow.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion was Atlas Shrugged, free copies of which readers can order here.



The podcast was recorded on November 17, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent conversion to Christianity, which they argue is the result of tribalism and fear. They discuss the unconcern for truth of many alleged defenders of the West, their bogus claims about the positive role of Christianity, and the failure of secular atheists to complete the Enlightenment project.



Among the topics covered:




Hirsi Ali's admirable story of emancipation from Islam;



The tribalism and fear behind her conversion to Christianity;



Her tribal disregard for the question of whether Christianity is true;



Christianity as the very source of the Western weakness that Hirsi Ali denounces;



The tribal emphasis on defeating one’s enemy regardless of the truth or falsehood of the ideas one accepts;



How most of her secular critics pragmatically embrace secularized versions of Christian ethics;



The failure of secular atheists to fulfill the Enlightenment promise of a rational ethics;



The secularists’ appeasement of Kant's anti-Enlightenment philosophy;



Why a proper defense of Western values requires looking to and expanding on the Enlightenment, not Christianity.




Recommended in this podcast are Ghate’s article “Finding Morality and Happiness Without God” and Bayer’s “Debunking the Supernaturalism That Haunts Secular Ethics.”



The podcast was recorded on November 15, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 07:10:15 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Ziemowit Gowin discuss international laws of war. Challenging the very legitimacy of such laws, they emphasize how “humanitarian” laws of war hamper a free country's self-defense, make them vulnerable to belligerent regimes, and make war more palatable rather than less.



Among the topics covered:




How international laws of war undercut a nation's right to self-defense and whitewash dictatorships;



Why war is legitimate both in response to an attack and to preempt an attack;



Why “humanitarian” laws of war sanitize war, making it more palatable, not less;



How the principle of proportionality cripples a nation’s self-defense;



Why civilians are implicated in war and not to be isolated;



Why a nation should follow principles that serve their legitimate military objectives;



The crucial importance of civilian control over a free nation’s army;



Why international laws as such are unenforceable.




The podcast was recorded on November 14, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Sam Weaver and Mike Mazza discuss the long-standing “reading wars” in American schools. They explore the historical background of the debate, different approaches to teaching reading, and why phonics has consistently proven to be far superior to whole language methods in instilling a love of reading in children.



Among the topics covered:




What phonics is and why it matters;



Whole language and other alternative approaches to phonics;



The “balanced literacy” approach that mixes phonics with whole language;



How the debate over teaching reading unfolded over the decades;



Competing underlying theories about how reading works;



The evidence for the validity of phonics;



The unsound arguments against phonics;



Why the need for phonics derives from its use of a conceptual method;



Why teachers don’t use phonics in spite of its well-established validity;



The irrational philosophical premises that explain the rejection of phonics;



Encouraging signs of the resurgence of phonics.




The podcast was recorded on November 9, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Ziemowit Gowin discuss the right to self-defense, deaths of innocents in war, and just war theory in the context of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.



Among the topics covered:




Why the responsibility for deaths of innocents in war falls on the aggressor;



How the right to self-defense rests on the inalienable right to your own life;



How the aggressor can be morally responsible for deaths the defender caused;



How the principle of “double effect” undermines the right to self-defense.




Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate’s New Ideal article “Innocents in War?”



The podcast was recorded on November 3, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Iran’s central role in inspiring, supporting and funding the enemies of Israel and the West.



Among the topics covered:




Why the Iranian Revolution of 1979 is crucial context for understanding the proliferation and boldness of Islamist groups in the Middle East;



Why Iran’s explicitly expansionist goals must not be ignored or downplayed;



How Iran’s imperialism is driven by its Islamist ideology;



The failure of “realists” to account for the true goals of Islamist ideology;



Why it is absurd to view Iran’s actions as a just response to Western interference in the region;



The chaos of American foreign policy in the Middle East and how it betrays those in the region who support freedom;



Why Iran and Islamism explicitly stand for a morality of death-worship.




This episode was broadcast live on November 1, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Don Watkins discuss Marc Andreessen’s recent defense of “techno-optimism“ in his essay “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” and explain why his manifesto lacks the moral foundation required to successfully defend technological progress.



Among the topics covered:




Andreessen’s commendable advocacy of technological progress;



The philosophical foundation of technological progress;



How Andreessen’s defense of technological progress rests upon altruism;



Why successfully advocating for technological progress requires defending self-interest;



How Andreessen’s view of competition undercuts his defense of capitalism.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Ayn Rand’s “America’s Persecuted Minority,” Yaron Brook and Don Watkin’s book, "Free Market Revolution," the New Ideal Live episode with Tal Tsfany, Elan Journo, and Jason Crawford, “What Marc Andreessen Gets Right and What He Misses in His Article “It’s Time to Build,” and the New Ideal Live episode with Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza, and Chad Mills, “Threats to Regulate Artificial Intelligence”.



This podcast was recorded on November 2, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj005O1djv4




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Elan Journo, and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the global protests in support of the Palestinian cause. They look at the philosophical motives of these protests and the nature of their moral bankruptcy, and they explain why the “anti-war” movement actually enables warfare and destruction.



Among the topics covered:




The protesters’ lack of positive goals;



Nihilism as the driving motive behind the protests;



How “anti-war” movements have historically dismissed the fundamental moral questions about war;



Why any “anti-war” movement that does not oppose dictatorship is necessarily pro-war;



How collectivism causes the callousness of the pro-Hamas activists;



The nihilistic nature of the ideology of egalitarianism;



Why outlawing support of Hamas would require moral clarity on a policy level;



The right to refuse to deal with or support Hamas apologists.




The podcast was recorded on October 25, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos challenge the misleading narrative of the shrinking Palestinian lands and the claim that Israel has allegedly stolen them. They explore the history of how the Israeli territories were lawfully acquired, the Palestinians’ repeated failures to form an enduring, peaceful state, and the broader philosophical questions of what moral premises are necessary to validate any claim to statehood.



Among the topics covered:




The dishonest narrative of the “shrinking Palestine” maps;



The documented history of how individuals acquired the land through trade;



The Arab rejection of the two-state UN partition plan;



How the very idea of a partition plan ignored the moral dimension of the Palestinian claim for statehood;



Why the issue is not fundamentally about land but the type of society being established;



How Israel ended up occupying the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights;



How the flawed “land for peace” policy exposed the impossibility of a peaceful Palestinian state;



The fact that the Palestinians' goal has never been to build a free, prosperous society.




Mentioned in this podcast are Journo’s What Justice Demands and ARI’s resources on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East.



The podcast was recorded on October 26, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the recent comparisons between America’s border crisis and the threat to Israel from Hamas terrorists. They analyze a range of claims about the alleged threat posed by immigration across the Mexican border and explain how such claims are not only unsupported but result in massive injustice and obscure the actual problems with the immigration system.



Among the topics covered:




The existing border crisis in America;



The unsupported claims of an “open border” and comparisons to Israel;



How fearmongering undercuts our ability to address actual threats;



Why terrorism from illegal immigrants is not a serious threat;



How to think about the threat of terrorism objectively;



The threat from drug cartels;



Why migrants are not a threat to national sovereignty;



The hypocrisy of anti-immigration politicians;



How preventing economic migration fuels illegal immigration;



What is the solution to the border crisis?




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Alex Nowrasteh’s testimony to Congress about the alleged threat of terrorism from the Southern border, the book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism by Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo, and a previous New Ideal Live podcast entitled “Dishonest Debate on Immigration and National Security” featuring Onkar Ghate and Vergara Cid.



The podcast was recorded on October 25, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, and in the context of ongoing events in Israel and Gaza, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss how to think about civilian casualties in war.



Among the topics covered:




Why the brutal nature of war should not be sanitized, glamorized, or whitewashed;



Why winning requires doing everything necessary to bring an end to the enemy’s military and political leadership;



How Hamas uses its subjects as human shields, hoping to deter Israel from defending itself and turn wider opinion against Israel;



How to think about the moral and causal responsibility of civilians for the aggression of their government;



Why a proper concern for innocent people and allies in enemy territory cannot jeopardize overall war aims;



Why war must not be thought of as punishment for a criminal act but as the total ending of an enemy regime’s power to attack;



That Hamas’s goal is not freedom for Palestinians but the annihilation of Israel and the establishment of a religious dictatorship;



Why it’s wrong to apply a standard of “proportionality” to military actions taken in self-defense;



How altruism causes observers to put emotional reactions to images of suffering above concerns with justice and self-defense;



Why Israel and the West’s appeasement of evil makes them partly culpable for the attacks they now face.




Relevant to the discussion is “Ayn Rand on the Death of Innocents in War,” a recently released video on the ARI YouTube page, which documents Rand’s extemporaneous comments on the issue of civilian casualties in war.



This episode was broadcast live on October 18, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Brandon Lisi reads aloud his article, “Rand and Oppenheimer: The Atomic Bomb Movie that Wasn't.” In that essay, he tells the story of Rand's work on "Top Secret," a movie about the invention of atomic bomb. Lisi explains Rand's perspective on the significance of such a movie as well as her intense research on the subject, including two interviews with J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who served as scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory. Lisi's article was originally was originally published in New Ideal, the Ayn Rand Institute’s journal, on August 2, 2023.







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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2023 07:49:13 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Aaron Smith reads aloud his article, “The Suffering of Moral Saints.” In that essay, he analyzes Larissa MacFarquhar's book, Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help. The central question that MacFarquhar asks is “Is it good to live as ethical a life as possible?” As Smith shows, the fundamental problem with MacFarquhar's perspective is that she equates morality with altruism. He goes on to argue that this perspective is false — and dangerous. Smith’s article was originally published in New Ideal, the Ayn Rand Institute’s journal, on November 14, 2018.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo, Onkar Ghate, Nikos Sotirakopoulos, and Tal Tsfany discuss the recent developments in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. They assess the cultural significance of Hamas' aggression and methods, the theocratic nature of the movement, and how Western reactions have been either impotent or, worse, encouraging violence against Israel.



Among the topics covered:




What makes Hamas' aggression tragically significant;



Tsfany's experience of how the conflict has drastically escalated over the last decades;



How terrorism became a deliberate strategy of the Palestinian movement;



How U.S. leaders evaded the religious nature of Hamas;



The Biden Administration’s lack of moral clarity;



The fact that Hamas and its Western apologists share the same irrational ideas;



The academic rejection of capitalism as proof of their destructive motives;



What a Hamas government would look like if it wiped out Israel;



The Iranian protesters as the only real hope for positive change in the Middle East;



Whether Hamas can be completely separated from the Palestinian people.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Elan Journo’s What Justice Demands and ARI’s resources on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.



The podcast was recorded on October 11, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Elan Journo, and Boaz Arad offer the Ayn Rand Institute’s response to the invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023 by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist militant group based in the Gaza Strip.



Among the topics covered:




Facts about the Hamas invasion (timeline, casualties, ongoing threats);



Why the invasion was a predictable consequence of moral agnosticism about Hamas;



Why U.S. foreign policy is responsible for pressuring Israel to appease Hamas;



How Israel’s appeasement constitutes “the sanction of the victim”;



Why the moral corruption of our foreign policy is an application of the evil of altruism;



The evasion of the difference between the ideas that animate both sides of this conflict;



The insincerity of calls for Israel’s restraint in the name of peace.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion was Elan Journo’s book, What Justice Demands, and other ARI resources on the Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East.



The podcast was recorded on October 7, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Saudi Arabia’s lavish spending on sports celebrities, the recent American diplomatic overtures to Saudi Arabia, and the connection between the two.



Among the topics covered:




Recent sports and diplomatic deals with Saudi Arabia;



Sports celebrities accepting lavish salaries from the Saudi government;



An ominous proposal to strengthen U.S.-Saudi relations;



The authoritarianism nature of the Saudi regime;



The moral sanction Saudi Arabia seeks by investing in sports;



The lack of a coherent U.S. foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia;



What the Saudis want through these sports and diplomatic deals;



Whether accepting lucrative salaries from the Saudi regime is self-interested;



The “realist” foreign policy case for closer ties with Saudi Arabia;



Whether bringing in sports celebrities supports positive social change for Saudi Arabia;



Judging the moral status and direction of a country or a leader objectively.




Mentioned in this podcast are Elan’s Journo’s articles “Whitewashing a ‘Pariah’ State: Biden’s Visit to Saudi Arabia,” "Biden’s Visit to Saudi Arabia Is an Affront to American Values,” “Why Trump Should Disrupt the Scandalous US-Saudi Relationship," Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the New Ideal Live podcast “How the Qatar World Cup Abets Authoritarian ‘Sportswashing’' with Agustina Vergara-Cid and Nikos Sotirakopoulos. Also suggested is the entry on self-interest in the Ayn Rand Lexicon.



The podcast was recorded on October 4, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos review Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi’s new book The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism, and argue that the authors’ attempt to define libertarianism demonstrates that it lacks a coherent ideological identity.



Among the topics covered:




Zwolinski and Tomasi’s book and the liberty vs. libertarianism movements;



The connection between libertarianism and the progressive left;



Why libertarians share an intellectual alliance with the reactionary right;



How the connections between libertarian factions are sociological rather than ideological;



Why defending liberty is meaningless without a philosophical foundation;



Criticizing libertarianism is not infighting but a fight over what liberty is.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion is Peter Schwartz’s 1985 article “Libertarianism: The pervasion of Liberty” in The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought, Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand’s Political Philosophy edited by Gregory Salmieri and Robert Mayhew, and a two part lecture series by Gregory Salmieri and Onkar Ghate on "Politics, Liberty, and Objectivism."



The podcast was recorded on September 27, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVnVcjW6-xQ




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Aaron Smith discuss the idea that our complex, division of labor society precludes real independence, and they examine what is wrong with thinking of ourselves as “interdependent.”



Among the topics covered:




Why Ayn Rand unequivocally rejected the idea that we are all interdependent;



How globalism makes us interconnected, while only government force can outlaw our ability to function as independent individuals;



How the false metaphysics of collectivism is used to push the idea that we are all interdependent;



How religion and mysticism undermine our independence;



The senses in which man is and is not a social animal;



The meaning of the idea that man is an end in himself;



The difference between accepting help and being dependent;



How attacks on independence tear down individual achievements and excuse failures.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Ayn Rand’s novels Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and Anthem, her letter to DeWitt Emory, and Harry Binswanger’s webinar “How Can One Be Fully Independent in Today’s Society?”



The podcast was recorded on September 20, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Dan Schwartz and Ziemowit Gowin answer reader-submitted questions about Ayn Rand’s Objectivist ethics.



Among the topics covered:




What are Ayn Rand’s thoughts on ambition in career?How ambition can be moral or immoral depending on the goals pursued;Career ambition versus second-handedly chasing salary increases and promotions;

Career ambition in the context of pursuing values generally, including non-career values.





How does Rand’s virtue of rationality differ from Aristotle’s virtue of practical wisdom?Practical wisdom as the ability to deliberate well about how to act rightly in a given situation;

Why Rand does not divide virtues into intellectual and ethical virtues.





Why did Rand name seven virtues, and could there be more?Why some purported virtues are not virtues at all, and others, such as courage, are aspects of virtues Rand identified;

Why any additional virtues, even if valid, would not be part of Objectivism — i.e., Rand’s own philosophy.





Why choose to live, and is this a moral choice?How morality provides guidance for living and is only useful for someone who chooses to live;Why the choice to live is an ongoing series of choices embodied in the act of pursuing values;How we experience life as an end-in-itself, and why the choice to live is not groundless;

The sense in which morality applies to everyone, even though some do not choose to live.





Should I risk my dream job to save a life?Why ethics is not primarily about resolving emergency scenarios;

When, and why, you can properly offer non-sacrificial help to others.






Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are “The Objectivist Ethics,” “Tax Credits for Education,” “The Ethics of Emergencies,” and “Causality Versus Duty” by Ayn Rand; Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith; Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff; and “Q&amp;A on the Best Objections to Objectivism,” a previous episode of New Ideal Live.



This episode was recorded on September 11, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal, Sam Weaver interviews Harry Binswanger and Shoshana Milgram about the Romantic movement in art and Ayn Rand’s unique account of it. They also discuss an upcoming conference, Resurrecting Romanticism, which will focus on Romanticism in music and the visual arts.



Among the topics covered:




The value of learning about Rand’s philosophy of art;



A brief summary of Rand’s account of why we need art;



The unique value of Romantic art’s portrayal of volition and values;



Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version and the stories of O. Henry as examples of Romantic literature;



Why the Romantic movement started around the beginning of the nineteenth century;



Why it’s invalid to criticize Romantic art as unrealistic and “escapist”;



Why there is little to no new Romantic art, and what it would take to bring it back;



How Rand’s definition of Romanticism relates to the visual arts and music;



Topics in music and the visual arts that will be covered at the Resurrecting Romanticism conference.




Mentioned in the podcast and relevant to the discussion are the upcoming Resurrecting Romanticism conference (October 7-9 in Spartanburg, South Carolina), Ayn Rand’s book The Romantic Manifesto, and two chapters in A Companion to Ayn Rand, edited by Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri: Binswanger’s “The Objectivist Esthetics” and Tore Boeckmann’s “Rand’s Literary Romanticism.”



The podcast was recorded on August 8, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Ricardo Pinto discuss Ayn Rand’s devastating critique of the idea of original sin. They explore how the notion has been understood historically, the philosophical and political uses to which it has been put, and the arguments Rand gives for regarding it as a destructive affront to morality and self-esteem.



Among the topics covered:




What original sin is and how it compares to other views;



Why Ayn Rand saw the doctrine as an offense to the very concept of morality;



Original sin’s “explanation” of why the individual is guilty of another’s actions;



Original sin as incompatible with free will;



The conservative justification of capitalism on original sin;



Original sin as a premise of the “secular” left;



How original sin rests on an antipathy to the body;



The assault on intellectual pride; 



The mutual reinforcement between altruism and original sin;



The deepest psychological motives behind original sin. 




Recommended in this podcast are the Ayn Rand Lexicon’s entry on original sin, Rand’s “Conservatism: An Obituary” and “Moral Inflation,” and Ben Bayer’s “The Old Morality of the New Religions.”



The podcast was recorded on September 5. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 13:49:57 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the Biden administration’s recent prisoner swap with the Iranian regime and how it reflects the delusional attitudes and non-objective thinking that lead to America’s continuous foreign policy failures with regard to Islamic totalitarianism.



Among the topics covered:




The details of the prisoner swap;



The often delusional attitude of American policymakers toward Iran;



How the media has failed in its responsibility to question the Biden administration’s policies on Iran;



How the nature and history of the Iranian regime pertain to the current situation;



The importance of understanding the Iranian regime’s role in the broader Islamist movement;



How a refusal to think in principles and consider the wider context has caused repeated foreign policy failures;



Why the return of this pre-9/11 mentality bodes poorly for America’s future foreign policy;



The threat Iran poses today.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion is the book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11, edited by Ghate and Journo, and Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.



The podcast was recorded on August 31, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos analyze the moral justification and the criticisms of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan in light of the movie Oppenheimer. The episode features audio clips of Ayn Rand discussing the right of military self-defense and the issue of “innocents in war.”



Among the topics covered:




The claim that Japan would have surrendered before the US dropped the bomb;



Why the Japanese military kept fighting despite knowing the war was lost;



Why the bomb was dropped when Japan was already defeated militarily;



The crucial distinction between military defeat and unconditional surrender;



The bogus claim that the bomb was dropped to deter the Soviet Union;



The defense of your own citizens’ lives and rights as the moral purpose of war;



How Rand thought about “innocents in war” and their moral responsibilities;



A previously-unreleased clip of Rand speaking about the controversial issue of targeting civilians in war;



Lessons to draw from this podcast.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Rand’s 1966 article “The Roots of War,”  Rand’s 1972 and 1976 Ford Hall Forum lectures “A Nation’s Unity,” and “The Moral Factor,” Onkar Ghate’s article “Innocents in War?,” John David Lewis’ book Nothing Less than Victory, and Brandon Lisi’s New Ideal article “Rand and Oppenheimer: The Atomic Bomb Movie that Wasn’t.”



The podcast was recorded on August 24, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://youtu.be/Nkyr79Uv1jk




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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ziemowit Gowin is joined by Scott McDonald to discuss the latest events in the ongoing dispute between China and Taiwan.



Among the topics covered:




What Secretary of State Blinken’s recent visit to Beijing signals about U.S. policy toward China;



Why Taiwan matters to the Chinese Communist Party;



How the war in Ukraine is shaping hostilities between China and Taiwan;



Why China’s attempt to assimilate Taiwan will probably fail;



How classical Chinese philosophy informs Chinese foreign policy;



Whether China is an enemy of the U.S.;



How America’s interests in Taiwan can be served by taking action to prevent a Chinese invasion;



How U.S. policy on China has been reactive and unprincipled.




Relevant to the discussion is our previous New Ideal Live episode with Mr. McDonald,“What Does Xi Jinping's China Want?” 



This episode was recorded on August 11, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_xskLlY6-E




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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Harry Binswanger discuss Ayn Rand's little-known analysis of the Watergate scandal, fifty years after the Congressional hearings. They draw attention to how Rand's evaluation differed from the conventional commentary of the day, and her analysis of how pragmatism and the mixed economy function as the deepest causes behind political scandals like Watergate.



Among the topics covered:




Why Ayn Rand didn’t want to write about the scandal at first and why she later decided to do so;



Rand’s evaluation of Nixon in the decades before the scandal;



Rand's evaluation of the crude pragmatism of Nixon and his aides;



Pragmatism as an anti-conceptual philosophy that still pervades our culture;



Why the conservatives' obsession with scandals leads them to passively accept the moral premises of the left;



How bad ideas, not money, corrupt politicians;



Why Watergate-like chaos takes hold in a mixed economy;



The fact that no real issues are discussed in America anymore;



Parallels between Nixon and Donald Trump.




Recommended in this podcast are Rand’s five articles covering Watergate compiled in The Ayn Rand Letter.



The podcast was recorded on August 10, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://youtu.be/nESV0t5QEZk




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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 23:19:47 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Sam Weaver reads aloud his article, “The Knowledge Gap Highlights a Failing of America’s Schools.” In that essay, he examines The Knowledge Gap, a 2019 book by education writer Natalie Wexler. Although Wexler's book sheds light on the shocking degree to which American elementary schools have abandoned teaching knowledge of the world, Weaver argues that her assessment is charitable, and that the anti-knowledge trend should be regarded as a moral crime against generations of students. Weaver’s article was originally published in New Ideal, the Ayn Rand Institute’s journal, on June 14, 2023.



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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Nikos Sotirakopoulos, and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss Europe’s immigration policies, its failure to assimilate immigrants and adopt rational policies toward them, and what America needs to learn from Europe’s failures to avoid these problems.



Among the topics covered:




The need to distinguish normal immigration from a refugee crisis;



What statistical data show is happening in Europe;



The rise in violence against women and Jews in Europe;



Europe’s evasion and denial of the dangers of militant Islam;



Immigrant crime and welfare benefits in Europe versus in the U.S.;



Muslim assimilation in the U.S. versus in Europe;



Multiculturalism’s role in the non-assimilation of immigrants in Europe;



The meaning of multiculturalism, and the factors that drive or prevent assimilation;



The nature of the “American Experiment,” and its implications for immigration;



Europe’s approach to policing foreigners and its self-destructive results;



How Muslim assimilation in America is hindered by giving Islam a protected status.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion is Ayn Rand’s talk “Global Balkanization” (which can be found in essay form in The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought), and the New Ideal Live podcast episode "The Debate over the Right to Immigrate" with Ghate and Vergara Cid, where they discuss the immigration debate in America from a philosophical perspective.



The podcast was recorded on August 2, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk93Q3T-os8




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      <title>In Defense of Life Extension</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Dan Schwartz and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the significance of Dr. Peter Attia’s new book Outlive and challenge some common arguments against life extension.



Among the topics covered:




Why we should care about extending our lives and our health;



How Peter Attia’s book fits into and changes the debate on life extension;



Why the egalitarian argument against life extension is wrong;



Why the “limited natural resources” argument against life extension is wrong;



Why the “boredom,” “urgency” and “quality of life” arguments against life extension are wrong;



Why the “glut of the able” argument against life extension is wrong;



Why the “case against perfection” argument against life extension is wrong;



How arguments against life extension are motivated by fear and not valuing life;



What would James Taggart’s response be to life extension?




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion is Peter Attia’s book Outlive and the 2003 report of the President’s Council on Bioethics. 



The podcast was recorded on July 27, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcKtVvb4moI




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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:54:08 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode, Ben Bayer reads aloud his article, “Religious Skeptics Should Question Their Moral Theology.” In that essay, he argues that even though more secular people have rejected God and religion as such, they should take one more step and reject the conventional morality that comes from traditional religious beliefs. "Many secular people who have thrown off the religion of their parents have scrutinized at least some of their most provincial beliefs about ethics," says Bayer. His article was originally published in New Ideal, the Ayn Rand Institute’s journal, on June 17, 2023.]]></description>
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      <title>Special Announcement: We’re Releasing a Huge Trove of Essays on Rand’s Fiction and Philosophy</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:27:20 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this special episode, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo preview the release of scores of in-depth historical, literary, and philosophical essays on Ayn Rand’s novels. Originally included in a series of books edited by Robert Mayhew, these articles are a tremendous educational resource that can greatly add to the public understanding of Rand as a novelist and seminal philosopher. Until now, the Mayhew books were expensively priced for academic markets, but ARI is making this valuable content accessible to anyone, anywhere on the globe for free.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza and Aaron Smith discuss What's the Use of Philosophy?, a recent book by leading philosopher Philip Kitcher, in which Kitcher calls out academic philosophy for its useless work and corrupt methods.



Among the topics covered:




Why it is significant that an established professor of philosophy has written a damning critique of his own profession;



Kitcher’s radical claim that philosophy has become disconnected from life, practical guidance, and useful methods, and his willingness to question whether the profession has any legitimate value;



How Kitcher goes wrong by recommending a methodological turn towards pragmatism;



Why the philosophy of science is noticeably working from better premises than other areas of academic philosophy;



Why fundamental philosophic questions are crucially practical and must not be thrown out in favor of less ambitious, piecemeal investigation;



Why, contrary to Kitcher’s pragmatist view, Objectivism says that the most abstract philosophic questions have the widest practical consequences.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Ayn Rand’s “The Chickens’ Homecoming,” “Philosophy: Who Needs It,” “For the New Intellectual,” the entry on Linguistic Analysis in the Ayn Rand Lexicon, and Onkar Ghate’s “Let’s Revive Philosophy”.



This episode was recorded on July 19, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHLl-uYr7w




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      <title>What is a Woman? and Gender War Tribalism</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Matt Walsh’s film What Is a Woman? and how it reflects a deeper tribalism about sex and gender roles within the so-called culture wars and our current political climate.



Among the topics covered:




How Walsh’s film is much more propaganda than a sincere documentary;



Why appeals to common sense can’t settle questions of sex and gender;



Walsh’s appeal to the Maasai tribe reveals a mentality that wants to return to a more primitive view of gender roles;



How Walsh’s “documentary” lacks any genuine concern for truth;



Walsh’s appeal to tribal views of gender roles as rooted in religiosity;



How Walsh’s appeal to traditional gender roles is an attack on an individual’s pursuit of happiness;



Walsh’s disingenuous response to legitimate issues regarding sex and gender;



How both sides in this debate are wrong in their approach human sexuality and gender identity;



“Essentialism,” determinism, and the mind-body dichotomy in relation to gender roles;



Individualism as the antidote to tribalistic, dogmatic thinking about sex and gender.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion is the New Ideal Live podcast episode “Kathleen Stock's Reasoned Critique of Gender Ideology” with Onkar Ghate, Ben Bayer, and Daniel Schwartz, where they discuss and assess Kathleen Stock’s arguments about what is wrong with contemporary gender ideology.



The podcast was recorded on July 13, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szTWy48PgiU



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      <title>In Defense of Self-Esteem</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ziemowit Gowin and Tristan de Liège defend self-esteem against attacks and misrepresentations by presenting Ayn Rand’s distinctive view of self-esteem as a psychological and moral necessity for successful living.



Among the topics covered:




Why we should care about how to think about self-esteem as a value;



Rand’s view of self-esteem as portrayed in her fictional characters;



Why self-esteem is not the result of the opinions of others or an automatic recognition of one’s inherent value;



Why self-esteem is a necessary condition for happiness and success;



Why self-esteem is necessary for success in work and creativity;



Why self-esteem is necessary for success in one’s relationships;



Rand’s view of the moral nature and necessity of self-esteem.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (request a free copy of Atlas Shrugged here), and an article by Elan Journo on “Why So Many People Struggle to Gain Self-Esteem.”



The podcast was recorded on July 5, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuxZuhxbHDQ




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Agustina Vergara Cid and Onkar Ghate analyze the impact of immigrants on national security and evaluate the argument that America’s national security requires strict limits on immigration.



Among the topics covered:




How the argument that immigration is a threat to national security is biased against immigrants;



Why limiting immigration to prevent terrorism is dishonest;



How immigrants make us safer by serving in the military;



How restrictions on immigration have contributed to a shortage of skilled workers in areas of the economy the military depends on;



Why we need a targeted response to actual national security threats, not blanket prohibitions on immigration;



How those who oppose immigration, like environmentalists arguing against fossil fuels, selectively look for evidence to support their ideology;



Why mainstream thinkers fail to consider the benefits of immigration to national security.




Mentioned in the discussion is the New Ideal Live episode “The Debate Over the Right to Immigrate.”



The podcast was recorded on June 27, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo is joined by four of the Ayn Rand Institute’s fellows to preview talks they will be giving at our upcoming Objectivist Summer Conference 2023.



Among the topics covered:




Sam Weaver previews his talk, “The Reading Wars Today,” which addresses the destructive opposition to teaching children to read using phonics, and explains why Ayn Rand described phonics as the ‘conceptual’ method of learning to read;



Dan Schwartz previews his talk, “The Galileo Affair,” which will fight back against a recent trend in academia that blames Galileo for his famous clash with the Church;



Nikos Sotirakopoulos previews his talk, “The Left’s Long War on Israel,” which will explain the Left’s longstanding opposition to Israel, and why this opposition follows from their collectivistic, anti-achievement ideology;



Agustina Vergara Cid previews her talk, “The Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System.” Agustina will share real-life stories of hardworking immigrants trying to work in the US, revealing that the US immigration system is much more unjust than most of us think;



Question period.




Virtual passes to OCON 2023 can be purchased here until July 1.



This episode was recorded on June 21, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Sam Weaver and Mike Mazza discuss a recent paper, "In Defense of Science," which examines the increasing intrusion of "Critical Social Justice Epistemology" on scientific institutions. They explore issues such as this movement’s assault on objectivity and knowledge, how scientists are pressured into conformity, and why most defenders of science fail to articulate a well-founded understanding of the scientific method.



Among the topics covered:




The recent controversy over the influence of "Critical Social Justice" in science;



The claims of the "Critical Social Justice" advocates;



How the controversy is muddled by the failure to distinguish the scientific method from the scientific institutions which aim to practice it;



Why so-called Diversity Statements vitiate the quality of scientific research;



Why scientists' failure to understand their own method makes them vulnerable to bad ideas;



How a vague view of merit hinders a proper defense of science;



The need for a philosophical foundation for science.




The podcast was recorded on June 13, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 02:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the movements and regimes which have sought to destroy Israel since its founding seventy-five years ago.



Among the topics covered:




How to study history objectively;



How the conflict started, and the motives of the Arab countries that invaded Israel in 1948;



The rise of Pan-Arabism and the Six-Day War;



The rise of the Palestinian movement, including its debt to communist ideology and its terroristic tactics;



Why the Palestinian movement gained international sympathy;



The rise of the Islamist movement;



How a hostility to human life and freedom animated all these movements;



Why we should support Israel.




Mentioned in the discussion is the book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.



This episode was recorded on June 8, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 12:25:13 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer is joined by professor and clinical psychologist Gena Gorlin to discuss the widespread notion that “intellectual humility” is the rational antidote to dogmatism.



Among the topics covered:




How academic and popular defenders of reason have mixed up a legitimate concern for careful thinking methods with the illegitimate idea that nothing is certain;



Why humility entails servility, despite failed attempts to reconcile it with the love of truth;



Why intellectual ambitiousness demands working hard to attain knowledge;



The difference between earned certainty, probability, and the false certainty claimed by religious mystics;



How intellectual humility discourages people from being intellectually and professionally ambitious in their own lives;



Why it is important to know when you are not certain, and how to deal with real uncertainty.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are “‘Intellectual Humility’ Is a Cop-out” by Gena Gorlin, “The Old Morality of the New Religions” by Ben Bayer, and entries in the Ayn Rand Lexicon on humility and pride.



This episode was recorded on May 24, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Elan Journo discuss recent calls by Tucker Carlson and other conservative voices to resist technological and economic progress in the name of preserving traditional values and lifestyles.



Among the topics covered:




Conservative policy proposals that oppose economic and cultural progress;



How conservatives are torn between the contradictory goals of promoting individual freedom and preserving traditional ways of life;



Why traditionalism is a philosophy of stagnation, and the dynamism inherent to capitalism is the exact opposite of traditionalism;



Why the constant, ambitious pursuit of new knowledge and technological advancement is a fundamental human need;



Why the “right to stagnate” mentality leads to hatred of production and innovation and sets people against one another;



Why a fear of progress and a desire to stagnate reveal a profound lack of self-esteem.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Ayn Rand’s essay “The Age of Envy” published in Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution and “The Missing Link” published in Philosophy: Who Needs It as well as “The Divine Right of Stagnation” by Nathaniel Branden.



This episode was recorded on May 18, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Mike Mazza are joined by software engineer Chad Mills to discuss recent developments in AI and the ethics of AI development.



Among the topics covered:




What artificial intelligence is, vs. the way AI is perceived by the public;



The most impressive uses of AI technology that bring value to human life;



How AI is rapidly heading towards greater user accessibility;



How “artificial intelligence” differs from human intelligence;



The real problems facing AI development today, vs. the doomsday scenarios;



The ways we can protect ourselves against malicious people and states aiming to use AI for destructive purposes;



Why the difference in kind between AI and human conceptual understanding makes an artificial intelligence “singularity” unlikely;



The irrationality of the recent push to pause AI development and how it will hold back human progress;



Why arbitrary fears about AI doomsday scenarios belong to science-fiction and are philosophically invalid.




This episode was recorded on May 8, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2023 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo explore the moral and political lessons of the Iraq War.



Among the topics covered:




Why Americans need to examine the lessons of the Iraq War;



The 9/11 terrorist attacks and the context leading up to the war;



The focus on weapons of mass destruction and intelligence weaknesses while evading the threat of Islamic totalitarianism;



Why Russia’s attack on Ukraine is not analogous to America’s war in Iraq;



David Frum’s analysis of the Iraq War in The Atlantic;



John Bolton’s and Bret Stephens’ analysis of the war and the failure to question whether Iraq was the right target;



The disastrous results of the war, including increased reluctance to defend American interests militarily;



How America’s response to 9/11 set the stage for the rise of populism and widespread distrust of institutions;



The erosion of American exceptionalism in the wake of the Iraq War.




Mentioned in the discussion are the book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11 and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, which is free to students.



This episode was recorded on May 5, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the libertarian support for Putin and other authoritarian regimes. They explore the libertarian movement's decades-long sympathy for evil regimes, its anti-state, anti-American foreign policy, and how the movement's rejection of morality has led to sanctioning tyrants.



Among the topics covered:




Recent libertarian defenses of authoritarian regimes;



How these libertarians are primarily anti-state, not pro-liberty;



Murray Rothbard as the spokesman of the libertarian movement's anti-state, anti-American foreign policy;



Rothbard's positive view of dictatorships as flowing from his rejection of morality;



Altruism — not imperialism — as the cause of the US engaging in self-sacrificial wars;



How the "big tent" approach to liberty explains the prevalence of the worst ideas within libertarianism;



How Objectivism can appeal to the best people within libertarianism.




Recommended in this podcast is Peter Schwartz’s essay “Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty” in Ayn Rand’s The Voice of Reason.



The podcast was recorded on April 28, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:23:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss Ayn Rand’s philosophic analysis and critique of “liberals.” They explain what makes Rand’s evaluation of “liberalism” different from that of “conservatives,” why she thought “liberals” began concealing their collectivist goals, and how today’s “liberals” are different from (and worse than) those of Rand’s time.



Among the topics covered:




Ayn Rand’s analysis of “liberalism” as distinctive;



Problems with the term “liberal” and how “liberalism” changed in the twentieth century;



Rand’s critique as stemming from individualism, not anti-communism;



Why Rand saw active-minded “liberals” as an audience worth reaching;



How Rand saw the contrast between Objectivism, "liberalism," and "conservatism";



Why Rand viewed President Kennedy as steering the country toward fascism;



Ways Kennedy's policies fostered government control and the erosion of freedom;



Why Rand thought “liberals” kept their ideological motives hidden;



How the New Left openly embraced the collectivism the Old Left whitewashed;



Whether “liberals” today are different from those of Rand’s time;



Why concern for truth should be what motivates political thought and action.




Recommended in this podcast are Journo’s “Ayn Rand’s Devastating Critique of ‘Liberals’” and Rand’s “The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age,” “The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus,” “The Wreckage of Consensus,” “Conservatism: An Obituary,” and “The Left: Old and New.”



The podcast was recorded on April 19, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Agustina Vergara Cid and Nikos Sotirakopoulos challenge Robert Reich’s unjust crusade against billionaires. Agustina and Nikos unpack the pernicious motivations behind the attacks against successful billionaire producers and give an impassioned moral defense of their right to the wealth they have created.



Among the topics covered:




How widespread the attacks on the rich are in Western society;



How the ‘wage-theft’ argument is based a on false, Marxist view of wealth;



How attacks on billionaires conflate economic with political power;



How wealth is a creation of the individual, not of exploitation or ‘society’;



The anti-profit mentality is driven by hatred of successful producers;



Why morally defending billionaires and their wealth is an act of justice.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion is Ayn Rand’s lecture “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business,” available on ARI Campus and as an essay in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, and Agustina Vergara Cid’s op-ed in the Orange Country Register “Why I admire the GOATs of the business world.”



The podcast was recorded on April 14, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Ziemowit Gowin, Harry Binswanger, Shoshana Milgram, and Don Watkins discuss new course offerings at the Ayn Rand University (ARU).



Among the topics covered:




The goals of the Ayn Rand University and how students can benefit from it;



Shoshana Milgram’s course Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: Investigating the Mind of a Murderer;



How ARU courses facilitate in-depth study of Objectivism through feedback and interaction;



Harry Binswanger’s new courses on Objectivist Logic and Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology;



The best ARU courses for those new to Objectivism;



How ARU helps to train new intellectuals;



How ARU coaches help students to personalize the program and apply it to their lives;



New courses on Philosophy, Work, and Business and Persuasion Mastery;



Wrap up: ARU logistics, testimonials, and application information.




Mentioned in the discussion are the website for applying to ARU and new reading groups focused on Ayn Rand’s non-fiction, and Ayn Rand’s essay “For The New Intellectual.”



This episode was recorded on April 5, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the heckling and public shaming of Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan by Stanford Law School (SLS) students and the school’s associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at a Federalist Society (FedSoc) event. Ghate and Journo delve into the viral video of the event, Stanford’s letter apologizing to the judge, and the philosophic implications of both.



Among the topics covered:




How the “heckling incident” at SLS provides a window on DEI ideology on campuses;



How the Stanford associate dean’s remarks at the event represent the way DEI ideology functions as a religious orthodoxy;



How DEI ideology treats subjective feelings of harm as though they were objective rights violations;



Why DEI ideology is incompatible with the requirements of university education;



How Stanford’s apology letter defends free speech and apologizes to the judge;



How the apology letter shows that DEI orthodoxy is incompatible with viewpoint diversity;



SLS’s plan to hold sessions presenting the current laws on free speech while welcoming dissenting perspectives on those laws;



How to evaluate the judge’s conduct within the context of this controversy.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are the video of the incident and the subsequent letter from the dean of the SLS.



The podcast was recorded on March 31, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 03:56:46 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Mike Mazza respond to several common and plausible philosophic objections to Objectivism that were sent in by viewers.



Among the topics covered:




Why it is valuable to explore objections to any philosophy, especially one’s own;



Why Objectivism does not fall foul of a supposed is/ought gap in its argument for self-interest;What Ayn Rand says we can learn about the foundations of morality by comparing human beings to other organisms;

How to deal with scientific claims that seem to conflict with philosophic ideas;





Why modern brain science cannot disprove the existence of free will;The merits and shortcomings of raising questions about the compatibility of free will with modern brain science;Why Objectivism takes free will to be a self-evident primary that cannot be disproven by science;

Why accepting the importance of science and rationality entails implicitly assuming free will;





Why the choice to live, which sits at the foundation of the Objectivist ethics, is not a groundless choice and does not make the Objectivist ethics arbitrary or subjective;How objections to the choice to live arise;

Why the choice to live is grounded in reality and thus not arbitrary;





Why the method of raising counterexamples, commonly used in analytic philosophy, often neglects the need to keep firmly in mind the facts one is trying to conceptualize;The sort of counterexamples to Rand’s ethical argument raised by Michael Huemer;

Why counterexamples of this kind often fail to grapple with the real meaning of the generalizations they’re meant to refute.






Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are the New Ideal Live episode “Objectivism Q&amp;A—July 2022,” “Life-Based Teleology and the Foundations of Ethics” by Harry Binswanger, “Why Champions of Science and Reason Need Free Will” by Ben Bayer, “Seize the Reins of Your Mind: The Objectivist Theory of Free Will” by Onkar Ghate, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff, and “Reasoning About Ends” by Darryl Wright.



To learn more about our Ayn Rand Non-Fiction Reading Groups, click here. To learn more about Ayn Rand University, click here.



This episode was recorded on March 23, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the immigration debate from a philosophical perspective. They address questions such as whether foreigners have a right to immigrate to America, whether immigration or its curtailment violates the rights of American citizens, and what role government has in relation to immigration.



Among the topics covered:




Whether immigrants have a right to move to America;



The argument that immigration violates American citizens’ rights;



What is motivating the objection that immigrants allegedly take jobs from Americans or lower their standard of living;



What is the proper role of government in relation to immigration policy;



Whether failure to enforce immigration laws undermines the rule of law;



Illegal immigration as a response to unjust laws;



Why immigrants seeking a better life shouldn’t be smeared as “illegals”;



Why the objection that immigration is destroying American culture is invalid;



Ideological screening as a major threat to intellectual freedom;



Ayn Rand’s views on immigration as flowing from her view of self-interest;



What immigration would look like in a free society.




Recommended in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s writings on individual rights, her statements on immigration (found in Robert Mayhew’s Ayn Rand Answers), ARI’s statement on “The Immigration Debate,” and Harry Binswanger’s “The Case for Open Borders.”



The podcast was recorded on March 17, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss two landmark cases before the Supreme Court of the United States on the legality of using race in college admissions. They explain how collectivist thinking and state involvement in higher education have created policies that are fundamentally at odds with America’s history of individualism.



Among the topics covered:




How the court cases reveal a pernicious reliance on race in college admissions;



Ayn Rand’s opposition to quotas and affirmative action;



How previous rulings left the value of “diversity” unchallenged;



Why the role of diversity in education doesn’t justify race-based admissions;



The baseless claim of diversity as a “compelling state interest”;



Justice Sotomayor’s shocking claim that there is de jure racial segregation;



The crucial difference between private and government-mandated racial standards;



The arbitrariness of legal racial categories;



Why rhetoric about racial “representation” still amounts to racial quotas;



Why current admissions policies are racist, not a remedy to racism.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Ayn Rand’s essay “Moral Inflation” in The Ayn Rand Letter (March–April 1974), her essay “Racism,”  her Q&amp;A on affirmative action at the 1978 Ford Hall Forum, reprinted in Ayn Rand Answers (p. 105), and her essay “Representation without Authorization,” reprinted in The Voice of Reason.



The podcast was recorded on March 10, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss the pervasive influence of altruism on the culture and draw lessons from it about the systemic racism debate.



Among the topics covered:




Systemic altruism, like systemic racism, as the claim that the ideology permeates the culture, even if is not always accepted explicitly;



What altruism is and why it is evil;



Examples of altruism’s influence on the culture, including environmentalism, egalitarianism, and the anti-abortion movement;



Why most people find it hard to see this influence;



The role of social and cultural institutions, such as churches, universities, and the media, in perpetuating altruism;



The psychological mechanisms by which altruism spreads and sustains itself;



How better people sometimes internalize altruism and how this is often used against them;



How this analysis of systemic altruism can shed light on the controversy over whether systemic racism still exists.




Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s articles “The Missing Link” and “Philosophical Detection,” both available in Philosophy: Who Needs It, and her article “Altruism as Appeasement,” available in The Voice of Reason.



This episode was recorded on March 3, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here.




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      <description><![CDATA[American popular culture is filled with pieces that gently mock, satirize and ridicule religion, especially Judeo-Christian beliefs. To cite but three instances, Stephen Colbert’s periodic Late Show conversations with God, the character of Ned Flanders on The Simpsons, and the musical The Book of Mormon. At the same time, religion remains a highly respected force in American society, often regarded as an integral thread of American exceptionalism. This respect was on full display in the nation’s response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Here were trained fighters who flew airliners into New York City’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon in Virginia, and who declared they were doing so in the name of their faith. Yet few American leaders could even entertain the idea that these may have been religiously inspired attacks. The basic reason religion remains such an esteemed aspect of American society is that it is considered important, even indispensable, to morality. The strongest form this idea takes is that morality depends on religion — that without God, the distinction between good and evil loses meaning, and anything goes. In this episode, we read aloud Onkar Ghate's article, “Finding Morality and Happiness Without God.” In that essay, Ghate argues that because reason is how we understand and deal with reality, a proper approach to morality will teach us how to follow reason on principle, without any concession to unexamined feelings or to faith. Ghate’s article was originally published in New Ideal on May 4, 2018.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Ziemowit Gowin mark the one-year anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine by discussing European attitudes towards Russia before and after the launch of the all-out campaign.



Among the topics covered:




How European nations found themselves heavily reliant on Russian gas exports;



How European leaders' lack of principled thinking led to a refusal to recognize pre-invasion Russia as an authoritarian state, despite past acts of military aggression;



The surprisingly strong and moral reaction of European countries to the invasion;



The lessons Europeans have learned from the invasion and the lessons so far unlearned;



Why calls for a ceasefire based on a compromise between Russian and Ukrainian “interests” would amount to moral capitulation, a total surrender to Russia’s goals, and encouragement of future aggression.




Mentioned in this podcast are “Why John Mearsheimer Gets Ukraine Wrong” by Elan Journo, “A Historian of the Future: Five More Questions for Stephen Kotkin” by The Hoover Institution, and “The Roots of War,” “Altruism as Appeasement,” and “Doesn’t Life Require Compromise?” by Ayn Rand.



This episode was recorded on February 24, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <title>DeSantis’ Push to Ideologically Transform Florida Colleges</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Sam Weaver discuss Ron DeSantis’ push to ideologically transform Florida colleges, and evaluate its potential to bring about greater freedom in the realm of education. While some of DeSantis’ actions should be evaluated as positive, there are ominous signs that they could also entrench further state control of education.



Among the topics covered:




The toxic monoculture in American higher education;



The need for a separation of education and state;



Using the “Fairness Doctrine” to reverse state control in education;



Aspects of DeSantis’ proposal that could help introduce ideological diversity;



How DeSantis’ proposals could entrench a different kind of ideological monoculture;



What arguing for freedom in education requires.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion is Ayn Rand’s essay “Fairness Doctrine for Education” in Philosophy: Who Needs It.



The podcast was recorded on February 17, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.



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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Sam Weaver discuss Natalie Wexler’s argument that many American elementary schools have abandoned the responsibility of teaching factual content, and that this rejection of the importance of knowledge is exacerbating the nation’s reading crisis.



Among the topics covered:




The outrageous failure of American schools to teach students how to read and to kindle in them a love of reading;



Natalie Wexler’s argument that this failure is related to the failure of schools to teach basic factual knowledge;



Wexler’s view that phonics is necessary but not sufficient for teaching reading, because knowledge is also necessary for understanding meaning;



Schools’ bizarre attempt to detach reading skills from the study of content;



How this approach destroys students’ motivation to learn;



Why government control of education is to blame for the entrenchment of these failed methods;



How the establishment has ignored evidence of the bankruptcy of its methods.




Mentioned in the discussion are Natalie Wexler’s book The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System – and How to Fix It, Ayn Rand’s essay “The Comprachicos”,  Leonard Peikoff’s essay “The American School: Why Johnny Can’t Think”, and a New York Times article about literacy theorist Lucy Calkins.



This episode was recorded on February 10, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Aaron Smith interviews Harry Binswanger on Ayn Rand’s distinctive value-centered approach to philosophy — and to living life. As a long-time student of Rand and close friend in her final years, Binswanger shares his recollections of Rand's passionate quest of values, both as presented in her works and ideas and in her personal life.



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Ayn Rand’s integration of fact and value in philosophy and how it contrasts with traditional views;



How Rand answered long-standing philosophical questions about the basis and importance of values;



Why Rand held that material values have deep spiritual meaning;



Why the idea that there are no “blacks” and “whites” in morality is wrong;



How Binswanger came to know Ayn Rand and the impact she had on him;



The profound self-esteem that comes with achieving values one cares deeply about;



How Rand brought a philosophical perspective to every aspect of life;



The careful thinking that goes into pursuing what one really wants;



Some of Rand’s personal values, both minor and major.




Recommended in this episode are Leonard Peikoff’s “My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir”  and Mary Ann Sures and Charles Sures’ Facets of Ayn Rand.



The podcast was recorded on February 2, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[Why does the “antiracist” movement mobilize to deplatform or fire anyone who slights or asks the wrong questions about the dominant views of “social justice”? What explains the irrational fervor of the “woke”? John McWhorter, noteworthy Columbia linguistics professor and New York Times columnist, grapples with this question in his recent book, Woke Racism. The book’s subtitle reveals his provocative answer: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. To understand the “woke” movement, he shows, we must take seriously its religious character. In this episode, Ben Bayer reads aloud his article, “The Old Morality of the New Religions.” In that essay, Bayer argues that McWhorter shows how woke “antiracism” is a “new religion,” but he underappreciates how its zealotry is empowered by centuries-old religious morality. Bayer's article was originally published in New Ideal on January 4, 2023.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Mike Mazza are joined by Dr. Amesh Adalja to discuss the phenomenon of skepticism towards COVID-19 vaccines. They argue that this skepticism is based on arbitrary claims made in disregard of actual evidence and explain how to assess and respond to such claims.



Among the topics covered:




Adalja’s analysis of alleged dangers and actual side effects of mRNA vaccines;



Why claims made without real evidence are arbitrary, and how to respond to arbitrary claims;



Why anti-vaccine attitudes have increased even as vaccines have demonstrably quelled the pandemic;



How to assess claims to “evidence” one finds online or in the culture;



Why arbitrary claims are usually presented with the pretense of evidence;



What might be motivating those spreading false information;



Adalja’s response to several common worries about COVID-19 vaccines;



How one should think about unknown risks, and why worrying about the unknown amounts to arbitrary speculation;



Adalja’s projection of the future with regard to the COVID-19 virus.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion is Onkar Ghate’s “A Pro-Freedom Approach to Infectious Disease.”



This episode was recorded on January 24, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Aaron Smith discuss the recent incident at Hamline University, where art history professor Erika López Prater was dismissed for showing her students a fourteenth-century painting of the prophet Mohammed. They analyze the administrators’ charge of “Islamophobia,” the issue of “academic freedom” in terms of which the controversy has been viewed, and how the aversion to teaching allegedly offensive topics is destroying higher education.



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What happened at Hamline;



Hamline's dishonest response to public criticism of their actions;



The incident as an unfortunate sign of how universities are less willing to teach topics deemed as offensive;



How diversity offices, far from helping students navigate controversial topics, cater to irrational worldviews;



How the smear of “Islamophobia” destroys the distinction between rational and irrational criticism of Islam;



Why religion, being openly irrational, receives a privileged treatment;



Why suppressing controversial subjects is a disservice to any active-minded student;



How the framing of “academic freedom” ignores that the government’s control of education makes it impossible to solve conflicts between academics and the administration;



Government interference in education as a cause of increasing self-censorship.




The podcast was recorded on January 20, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Ziemowit Gowin discuss the political philosophy of Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher whose collectivist theory has been influential in empowering the opposition to Western liberalism in Russian culture.



Among the topics covered:




Dugin’s philosophical influence in Russia;



Dugin’s collectivist “Fourth Political Theory”  vs. liberalism;



The philosophical basis of the Fourth Political Theory;



The deadly consequences of Dugin’s political theory;



Ayn Rand on Russia’s culture of mysticism;



Dugin’s appeal to the political right.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Ayn Rand’s August 1967 interview with Johnny Carson and her essay “The Lessons of Vietnam” in The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought, as well as the following of Alexander Dugin’s books: The Fourth Political Theory, Eurasian Mission, The United States and the New World Order, and Political Platonism.



The pre-recorded podcast was released on January 5th, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[On May 7, 1943, as World War II raged across the globe, Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead was published in America. Due to sparse reviews and minimal publicity, sales were initially low. Then an unusual thing happened, paralleling Rand’s description of the gradual success of the novel’s hero, Howard Roark: “It was as if an underground stream flowed through the country and broke out in sudden springs that shot to the surface at random, in unpredictable places.” As word-of-mouth readership spread, Rand’s novel began appearing on best-seller lists more than a year after publication. By May 1945 it was #1 on the Los Angeles Times local best-seller list, and by August it reached #6 on the New York Times national best-seller list, remaining on that list (with few interruptions) until March 1946. In this episode, we read aloud Tom Bowden's article, “The Illustrated Fountainhead: Serializing a Classic Novel.” In that essay, he describes how Ayn Rand welcomed a newspaper syndicate's offer to popularize her best-selling novel in illustrated form. Bowden’s article was originally published in New Ideal on October 12, 2022. 



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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Don Watkins and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss New Year’s resolutions, what makes them difficult to maintain, and how integrated, contextual thinking can help automatize good habits.



Among the topics covered:




The unhealthy motivation of the “fresh start effect” vs. healthy motivations for resolutions;



Why the fact of automatization makes change both desirable and challenging;



Why a clear, first-handed purpose is necessary for sticking with goals;



The fatal error of oscillating between “all-or-nothing” perfectionism and “I’ll do it when I feel like it” subjectivism;



How to learn from resolution failures;



Framing your resolutions as aspirations for the life you want to live and the person you want to be;



How setting goals about outcomes, processes, and themes are interrelated;



How choosing detailed resolution goals in the context of the possibility of failure helps to strategize for success.




Mentioned in the discussion are Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear; How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams, and The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand.



This episode was recorded on December 29, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss two recent news stories: Elon Musk's controversial management of Twitter and Brittney Griner's return from captivity in Russia. They first analyze what Musk's management and its public reception foretells for the future of freedom of speech in America; they then examine what the Biden administration’s deal to secure Griner’s freedom by releasing Viktor Bout, a notorious Russian arms dealer, reveals about our foreign policy.



Among the topics covered:




Why Musk is not a true free speech absolutist;



How Musk and his critics falsely view content moderation issues as being about free speech;



How Musk's erratic policy changes show that he underestimates the difficulty of implementing content policies;



Why it’s wrong to think of the Twitter Files controversy as being about transparency;



What Musk’s conduct regarding China reveals about his commitment to free speech;



The unsubstantiated claim that Musk embodies Ayn Rand’s egoism;



Why the U.S. government should not negotiate with the corrupt, non-objective Russian government to secure the release of Americans who risk traveling there;



How the government’s lack of a rational foreign policy towards Russia misleads Western citizens and companies;



The fact that many people’s reactions focused on Griner's race or politics rather than asking why she even worked in Russia;



How both these stories highlight the need for principled thought about the government's role and its limits.




The podcast was recorded on December 20,2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:12:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the philosophical bankruptcy of effective altruism and the movement’s role in FTX’s financial collapse.



Among the topics covered:




The connection between FTX’s financial collapse and the effective altruism movement, including CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s goal of “earning to give”;



What effective altruism advocates and why its offshoot, “longtermism,” champions some unusual causes;



Why some of the common criticisms of effective altruism, such as the idea that it is a cynical ploy or that it is Utopian, miss the mark;



The real problem with effective altruism, as shown by some of its major advocates, as its demand for self-effacement and sacrifice;



How even secular altruists approach morality like a religion;



How effective altruism is a form of debased morality, which empties morality of meaningful guidance relevant to our everyday lives;



How a rational morality can be grounded in observable facts, not intuitions.




Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s article “Moral Inflation,” published in The Ayn Rand Letter, and our episode of New Ideal Live, “Why MacAskill is Wrong about What We Owe the Future.”



This episode was recorded on December 16, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Agustina Vergara Cid and Nikos Sotirakopoulos explain how authoritarian states such as Qatar use international sporting events like the World Cup to launder their reputations. They argue that this practice of “sportswashing” and organizations, like FIFA, who enable it, should be condemned for aiding authoritarian states in their bid for moral legitimacy.



Among the topics covered:




How authoritarian Qatar won the World Cup bid;



Qatar’s unprecedented World Cup spending;



Qatar’s abysmal treatment of migrant workers, women, the LBGT community and its overall lack of rights and freedom;



“Sportswashing” as reputation laundering with a long history;



Why the call to keep politics out of sports shields authoritarian nations from criticism;



“Sportswashing” as trading on a false moral equivalence;



The need to end appeasement of authoritarian states and for fans to condemn “sportswashing”;



FIFA’s moral culpability for aiding and abetting authoritarian regimes.




Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are the entries on moral judgment in the Ayn Rand Lexicon and Agustina Vergara Cid’s article  “Qatar's hosting of the FIFA World Cup is a bigger problem than you think” in the Orange County Register.



The podcast was recorded on December 8, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Dr. Amesh Adalja discuss the ethics of infectious disease and evaluate the continued push for stringent paternalistic measures to combat Covid, including the Chinese government’s push for “Zero Covid.”



Among the topics covered:




Why Covid is now endemic, not a pandemic;



How an individualized harm reduction framework can help us navigate a world in which infectious disease is an inescapable fact;



The egalitarian moral ideal behind prominent arguments for paternalistic measures such as mask mandates;



Why egalitarianism is wrong;



The ideas motivating China’s push for “Zero Covid”;



The flawed approach towards pandemic preparedness motivated by effective altruism;



The roles of vaccines and natural immunity in bringing about widespread immunity to Covid.




Mentioned in the discussion are Dr. Adalja’s article “The Pernicious Folly of Pursuing Zero Covid,” his talk “COVID-19, mRNA and the Future of Vaccines,” and Onkar Ghate’s essay “A Pro-Freedom Approach to Infectious Disease.”



This episode was recorded on November 30, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer interviews professor and clinical psychologist Gena Gorlin about the value of gratitude, possible misconceptions about it, and how it’s being understood and implemented in psychology and psychotherapy.



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Gratitude and its role in psychological exercises within the gratitude movement;



Whether these kinds of exercises are useful and valuable;



How the psychological benefits of gratitude exercises depend on a purposeful orientation towards values;



Why it’s important to distinguish the good that comes from others from natural goods, such as a sunny day;



Why the difference between gratitude, humility and pride in one’s own achievements is important;



Whether there’s a point at which it’s proper to stop expressing gratitude and start feeling angry about what’s bad or unjust in life;



The importance of acknowledging and learning from the achievements of others—including business entrepreneurs, which we benefit from;



How some entrepreneurs internalize the culture’s unjust attitude towards them and fail to appreciate what’s good in them;



Why we need to understand that gratitude is ultimately selfish.




Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Also mentioned is Matt Bateman’s essay “A Pedagogy of Gratitude.”



The podcast was recorded on November 23, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Aaron Smith and Mike Mazza discuss World Philosophy Day to explore what is the nature and value of philosophy. They address how philosophy is commonly perceived (especially within academia) as a useless field and how Ayn Rand's distinctive conception offers a deeper and more practical perspective that matters for life.



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What philosophy is and the kind of questions it addresses;



How people operate philosophically even when lacking a systematic outlook;



Ayn Rand’s take on philosophy as inescapable and life-impacting;



How contrasting philosophical worldviews produce different ways of living;



Ayn Rand’s view on the practical guidance that philosophy offers;



The problems with Bertrand Russel’s influential view of philosophy;



Why academic philosophy has failed to defend the value of its field;



How religion makes people unaware of secular philosophical worldviews;



Objectivism’s integration of method and content.




Recommended in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s book Philosophy: Who Needs It and Onkar Ghate’s article “Let’s Revive Philosophy.”



The podcast was recorded on November 16, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[The international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been extraordinary. Rarely have so many nations united so quickly to impose such heavy economic and diplomatic sanctions on Russia. Even Switzerland, a byword for studied neutrality, saw fit to levy sanctions on Putin’s regime. Millions of Ukrainians who fled their homes have been welcomed as refugees in Europe. The sympathy for them, and for those who remain under Russian bombardment, has been widespread (with American schoolchildren mailing small toys, crayons, and stuffed animals to comfort Ukrainian kids displaced from their homes). From across the globe, military aid to Ukraine has poured in. Underlying this reaction is an unspoken, in many cases impressionistic, recognition that Russia is the aggressor. But one prominent intellectual, Professor John Mearsheimer, argues that we’ve got it all wrong. In this episode, we read aloud Elan Journo's article, “Why John Mearsheimer Gets Ukraine Wrong.” In that essay, he argues that Mearsheimer's "realist" take on Russian invasion on Ukraine is an object lesson in the destructiveness of amoralism. Journo’s article was originally published in New Ideal on September 14, 2022.



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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the midterm elections and offer a philosophical analysis of the state of American politics.



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The value of analyzing the midterms from a long-term, philosophical perspective;Why the results in Georgia are an encouraging sign about the mindset of independent voters;The absence of long-term policy visions on key issues such as pandemic preparedness, inflation, and foreign policy;How today’s intellectual vacuum represents a degeneration compared to 1980s, 1990s and 2000s;The fact that today’s politicians don’t feel the need to even attempt to formulate policies;How the increasingly short-term, concrete-bound and tribal nature of American politics affects citizens’ ability to regard government officials as their representatives;How American politics became so intellectually empty;How religionists and democratic socialists are related to the anti-intellectual trend;Why voters generally have better views than many of today’s candidates;The importance of supporting better candidates when they come along.









Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s lecture “The Age of Mediocrity,” Ben Bayer’s article “Abortion Should Be Legal Until Birth,” and Onkar Ghate’s article “One Small Step for Dictatorship.” 



This episode was recorded on November 10, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here.    




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent attacks conducted by the Just Stop Oil activists and offer a moral and political evaluation of both the group itself and people supporting them.



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How the media justification of the soup attack on a Vincent van Gogh painting encourages further attacks;How to morally assess the protests conducted by the Just Stop Oil activists, especially in light of their harmful consequences;Why we should worry that these protests might become more violent;Why the wealthy fund and sanction Climate Emergency Fund, thereby indirectly supporting Just Stop Oil;How violent environmental groups are the logical endpoint of the environmental movement;Why Just Stop Oil and other similar violent groups cannot view themselves as heirs of the civil rights movement.



Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s essay “The Sanction of the Victims” from her book The Voice of Reason.



The podcast was recorded on November 2, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:43:21 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the attacks on "neoliberalism," an alleged ideology that critics blame for many of today’s political, social and economic problems. They analyze the critics’ central claims and explain why the very concept of “neoliberalism” clouds, rather than clarifies, our thinking about our political landscape.



Among the topics covered:



The critics of “neoliberalism” and what they claim;How “neoliberalism” was coined to designate a departure from laissez-faire capitalism;Ayn Rand’s distinctive approach to questionable concepts like “neoliberalism”;How many of the charges against "neoliberalism" resemble conspiracy fantasies;How the critics of “neoliberalism” grossly misrepresent the extent of our economic freedoms;Why the UK's slight shift towards freer markets met with such backlash;How altruism biases people against the achievements of the free market;How a mixed economy unjustly benefits those with political pull.



Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and Don Watkins and Yaron Brook’s Equal Is Unfair.



The podcast was recorded on October 27, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza and Sam Weaver address questions about free will submitted by the podcast’s audience.



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Ayn Rand’s view of free will as the choice “to think or not”;The importance of this view for the rest of Objectivist philosophy.How does metaphysical libertarianism differ from the Objectivist view of free will?How it contrasts with compatibilist attempts to reconcile free will and determinism;How Objectivism is a significant improvement on mainstream metaphysical libertarianism;Why free will is not magical but causal.What are some misunderstandings of the meaning of “free will”?Why free will doesn’t mean the unlimited power to choose anything or create oneself out of nothing;False views of free will adopted by compatibilists and determinists;Whether animals have free will;Do some people have more free will than others?Why free will is not the same as attention;The difference between having free will at all and the ability to exercise it at different times.How is free will different from rationality?Why free will is presupposed by the ability to be self-consciously rational.How much control do we have over our emotional states?What is the Objectivist response to Calvinist predestinationism?Why free will is antithetical to religious worldviews.



Mentioned in the discussion are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on “Free Will,” Leonard Peikoff’s book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Onkar Ghate’s talk “Seize the Reins of Your Mind,” and Onkar Ghate’s chapter “A Being of Self-Made Soul” in A Companion to Ayn Rand, and Harry Binswanger’s book How We Know.  



This episode was recorded on October 21, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here.



If you’d like to ask a question to be answered on a future episode, please send an email to newideal@aynrand.org with “Podcast question” in the subject header.




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      <description><![CDATA[Enrollment in college English departments is declining, with literature concentrations experiencing a particularly precipitous drop in student interest. This may sound like no great loss. Increasingly, American teenagers view timeless works of literature as hopelessly boring and their study of them as yielding no cash value. Even if this trend does not tell the full story behind the decline in college literature studies, it is surely part of the picture. Why would students pay to study a subject that strikes them as dull and unprofitable? In this episode, Sam Weaver reads aloud his article, “What Students Need to Find Literature Fascinating.” In that essay, he argues that a focus on story can make great literature as exciting to teenagers as popular films. Weaver’s article was originally published in New Ideal on August 17, 2022.



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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Liberalism and Its Discontents, a recent book by the well-known political scientist Francis Fukuyama. They analyze the book’s main claims and argumentation, and evaluate Fukuyama’s defense of liberalism.



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Fukuyama and his famous “end of history” thesis;Recent attacks on liberalism as the context of Liberalism and Its Discontents;Different meanings of the term “liberalism” in the U.S., Europe, and Fukuyama’s book;How Fukuyama’s failure to argue from a principled philosophical framework renders his defense of liberalism unconvincing;Ayn Rand’s argument that an ideal society is capitalist;What’s wrong with Fukuyama’s claims that the core of liberalism is something he calls “individual autonomy,” and that this has been taken too far;Why Fukuyama’s defense of liberalism is uninspiring and harmful;How Fukuyama’s rejection of principles leads to thinking in terms of central planning;How Fukuyama’s approach takes the mixed economy for granted;Rand’s view that those who hold compromising stances lose when challenged by more idealistic opposition.



Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Ayn Rand’s essays “Conservatism: An Obituary” and “The Anatomy of Compromise” from her book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.



The podcast was recorded on October 13, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. 



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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent protests against the authoritarian regimes of Iran and Russia. They analyze the common causes that animate these public demonstrations and offer a philosophical perspective on why they effectively undermine the moral legitimacy of these dictatorships.



Among the topics covered:



Why we should care about protests in dictatorships;How Iran’s mandatory veiling laws coerce its citizens and triggered the latest protests;The recent revival of Russian anti-war demonstrations triggered by Putin’s military draft;Why the protests are an existential threat to the Russian and Iranian regimes' moral credibility;Ayn Rand’s explanation of why the best people choose to withdraw their moral sanction from tyrants;What, if anything, the U.S. should do to support the protests;What Westerners can learn about how to respond to the Iranian regime from journalist Masih Alinejad’s uncompromising stand;Why most Western leaders lack the moral authority to criticize dictators.



The podcast was recorded on October 5, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Don Watkins, and Mike Mazza discuss Oxford philosophy professor William MacAskill’s new book, What We Owe the Future. The book advocates “Longtermism,” which calls for treating the well-being of people in the indefinite future as equal in value to presently existing people. Bayer, Watkins, and Mazza offer an egoistic perspective on the value of the future and critique MacAskill’s call to sacrifice for future generations.



Among the topics covered:



To what extent it is rational to value the future;What makes progress possible;Analyzing some concrete longtermist policy proposals;Major philosophical problems with the longtermist perspective;Longtermism’s roots in the effective altruism movement;How longtermism reveals the bankruptcy of the humanities.



The podcast was recorded on September 30, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Sam Weaver discuss political controversies that have erupted in the last two years around the discussion of controversial issues, like race or gender, in public schools. They analyze the causes of these political battles and what it would take to resolve them.



Among the topics covered:



The recent history of attempts to control the content of education by both the left and the right;Why right-wing attempts to influence education make headlines and leftist efforts do not;How the focus on controversial topics rather than educational fundamentals reveals a lack of concern for children’s interests;The tribal motivation behind attempts to indoctrinate children with certain views;Why the government monopoly on education leads to pressure group warfare;Why separation of education and state is needed for the same reasons as separation of church and state;Why education would be far more innovative if the government were not involved in it;How to reform education by giving more control to parents and less to government officials;Whether public school districts have objected to ARI’s Free Books for Teachers program.



The podcast was recorded on September 21, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[No death toll can truly capture the devastation that Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot and their ilk inflicted upon the world. Think of the engineered Great Famine in Ukraine (Holodomor), the Holocaust, the Cultural Revolution, the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Though today we recognize these leaders as monsters, we mustn’t forget that in their time Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and others had Western apologists and admirers. But surely the most consequential examples of such monsters today are Xi Jinping and especially Vladimir Putin. This is a reading of an article published in New Ideal on June 29, 2022, by Yaron Brook and Elan Journo. 



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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Nikos Sotirakopoulos, Elan Journo and Tristan de Liège discuss the phenomenon known as “hustle culture,” an attitude toward work that promotes relentless pursuit of career goals, and which critics say causes people to abandon their personal lives and experience burnout.



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The meaning of the new term “hustle culture”;Ayn Rand’s view of work versus the conventional view;Positive and negative aspects of “hustle culture” according to its defenders;The relation between challenging work and personal values;How to approach work when one’s job is unfulfilling;The need to think of one’s needs and values from a causal perspective and across one’s whole life;How to think about work in relation to one’s other values;Evaluating the advocates and critics of “hustle culture.”



Mentioned in this podcast are Rand’s novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.



The podcast was recorded on September 15, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. 



https://youtu.be/R29szapduuM



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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss America’s failed response to 9/11 and some of its consequences, including the discrediting of American political and intellectual institutions, the proliferation of conspiracy fantasies, and the rise of “populism.”



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Why 9/11 was a turning point in American foreign policy and in the wider culture;How ARI’s analysis of 9/11 and America’s military response differs from mainstream analyses;Government institutions’ evasion of the nature of the Islamic totalitarianism movement that caused 9/11;How this evasion led to the deaths of American troops deployed to help create new Middle Eastern governments that empowered Islamists;How the evasive response to 9/11 discredited political institutions, the media, and the universities in the eyes of many Americans;How the post-9/11 climate of evasion mainstreamed conspiracy fantasies and unjustified skepticism of America’s military capabilities;How the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent bailouts further discredited the government, the media, and the universities;How the “populist” view of “elites” as the enemy was fueled by the financial crisis and the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic;Why the root of the problem is the failure to uphold America’s founding ideals.



Mentioned in this podcast are Journo’s article “Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton Paved the Road to 9/11” and the book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism, edited by Ghate and Journo.



The podcast was recorded on September 7, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Aaron Smith, Dan Schwartz, and Tristan de Liège discuss Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience, a recent book by Nancy Sherman that promotes the philosophy of Stoicism while arguing that a healthy modern Stoicism requires important changes. They discuss major themes of Sherman’s book and how we should evaluate her perspective on Stoic philosophy.



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A brief overview of Stoic philosophy and its history;The Stoic view that emotions are products of our judgments and hence can be harmonized with reason;The Stoic view that emotions like desire, fear, anger, and distress are inherently irrational;What this view of emotions and Sherman’s modified version of it get wrong;Sherman’s take on the Stoic practice of “pre-rehearsing” the loss of one’s values;The metaphysical perspectives behind Stoicism’s emphasis on adversity versus Objectivism’s emphasis on achieving values;How contemporary interest in Stoicism relates to the widespread acceptance of the morality of altruism.



Mentioned in this podcast are Smith’s article “The False Promise of Stoicism,” Ayn Rand’s essays “Causality Versus Duty” and “The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made” from her book Philosophy: Who Needs It, and the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on “Emotions.”



The podcast was recorded on August 31, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. 



https://youtu.be/pegi4KAKgpg



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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the Statement of Principles recently released by leaders of the “National Conservatism” movement outlining the ideas they think are necessary for “recovering and maintaining our freedom, security, and prosperity.” Journo and Sotirakopoulos discuss the “principles” the statement advocates, how they relate to America’s founding principles and the philosophic ideas behind this movement.



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“National Conservatism” as a movement to redefine conservatism to exclude individualism;Why “national conservatives” regard the family and the nation as the units of society and oppose claims to know universal truths;Why “national conservatives” think governments must promote religious ideas;The authoritarian implications of the “national conservative” view that government should promote the family and prevent immorality;The “national conservatives’” un-American view that rights are conditional and originate from group consensus;Why we must oppose both the “woke” religious phenomenon on the left and the religion of the “national conservatives.”



Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “Conservatism: An Obituary” from the book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Leonard Peikoff’s essay “Religion Versus America” from the book The Voice of Reason, Journo’s articles “Meet the Conservative Authoritarians” and “The Vice of Nationalism,” and the New Ideal Live episode “The Threat of National Conservatism.”



The podcast was recorded on August 24, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2022 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Agustina Vergara Cid and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Iran’s recent attempts — on American soil — to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a journalist and critic of the Iranian regime, and John Bolton, a former U.S. National Security Advisor, as well as the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, whose murder Iran has advocated for over 30 years. They discuss the philosophic nature of the Iranian regime and how decades of failed U.S. policy has emboldened Iran and other enemies.



Among the topics covered:



The history of Iran’s fatwa against Rushdie;Alinejad’s activism and Iranian agents’ attempts to kidnap and assassinate her;Iran’s attempt to assassinate Bolton following the killing of Qassem Soleimani;How U.S. foreign policy over the last several administrations emboldened Iran and other enemies;The amorality of President Joe Biden’s statement about the attack on Rushdie;America’s long history of appeasing Iran even in the face of acts of war against the U.S.;The power of fundamentalist Islam and the need to convince its adherents that this ideology cannot win;How the U.S. should have responded to Iran’s 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran;Why an alliance of evil regimes would be insignificant if the U.S. stood up for American values;What a proper U.S. response to Islamic totalitarianism would involve;How the intellectuals’ propagation of cultural relativism and hatred for America has led to widespread misunderstanding of regimes like Iran.



Mentioned in this podcast are Ghate and Elan Journo’s book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism and Leonard Peikoff’s essays “End States Who Sponsor Terrorism” and “Religious Terrorism vs. Free Speech.”



The podcast was recorded on August 17, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate discuss the idea held by critics of “cancel culture,” such as John McWhorter and Bari Weiss, that we should not call our political opponents evil. They discuss why we should sometimes regard those who disagree with us as immoral or evil — and treat them accordingly.



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The phenomenon often called “cancel culture” and how critics conceptualize it;Objectivity versus the “principle of charity” endorsed by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt;What’s wrong with McWhorter’s case for not morally judging political opponents who have different value priorities from us;How the idea that values are not the province of reason breeds reluctance to make moral judgments;What’s wrong with Weiss’s idea that political disagreements shouldn’t affect personal relationships;Why Objectivism rejects the view that we can pass moral judgment only on people’s actions, not their ideas;How the Atlas Society’s stance that ideas are not subject to moral judgment has led to their failure to take ideas seriously.



Mentioned in this podcast are Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Coddling of the American Mind; John McWhorter’s article “I’m Pro-Choice. But I Don’t Think Pro-Lifers Are Bad People”; Bari Weiss’s article “The New Founders America Needs”; Jonathan Howard’s article “Is Discussing the Consequences of Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Fun?”; Leonard Peikoff’s essay “Fact and Value”; and the New Ideal Live episodes “The Fuel on the Fire of ‘Cancel Culture’” and “Challenging 'Cancel Culture.'”



The podcast was recorded on August 10, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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      <description><![CDATA[In this episode of New Ideal Live, Mike Mazza interviews Keith Lockitch about the Ayn Rand University and his upcoming course, Foundations of Physical Science, one of the many new courses being offered by ARU.



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The Ayn Rand University’s vision of providing a foundation for life;How the new ARU courses align with that vision;Whether ARU is aimed at a specific age group;Whether ARU courses will be offered more than once;An overview of Lockitch’s Foundations of Physical Science course;How the course fits with ARU’s broader vision;Why a strong math background is not required for Lockitch’s course;The textbooks and workload students can expect;The value of learning ancient astronomy and techniques of observational astronomy;The importance of astronomy in prehistoric times;How mobile apps are going to be used in the course;A brief description of the course outline and its philosophic framework;What people with a degree in physics or astronomy can gain from the course;Other courses that may be available in ARU in the future.



Mentioned in the discussion is Leonard Peikoff’s course History of Philosophy.



To register for Lockitch’s Foundations of Physical Science course or any other course at ARU, go to university.aynrand.org to see the course catalog.



This episode was recorded on August 4, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.




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