The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast


Latest Episodes

Trump’s Display of Arbitrary Immigration Power
May 19, 2025

https://youtu.be/VUYooprteeU Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid analyze how the Trump administrations immigration policy

Racism: What It Is and Why It Persists | Gregory Salmieri
May 16, 2025

https://youtu.be/RclwB5luKek Podcast audio: Ayn Rand denounced racism as the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. She also rejected as collectivist many of the measures be

Why Objectivity Demands a First-Handed Foreign Policy | Scott McDonald
May 13, 2025

https://youtu.be/2yQWRvrbVUI Podcast audio: Foreign policy is both a political activity and a field of applied ethics. However, the metaphysical and epistemological premises held by theoris

The ARI Bookshelf Explores Abundance
May 12, 2025

https://youtu.be/LVNSnbdEo0o Podcast audio: In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Onkar Ghate, Tristan de Lige, and Robertas Bakula discuss Abundance, the recent best-selling book by Ezra

How Capitalists Are Exploited
May 12, 2025

https://youtu.be/0R_RjyOJeI4 Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer, Robertas Bakula, and Tristan de Lige explore how the mixed economy enables the unj

Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits? | James Lennox
May 08, 2025

https://youtu.be/7Wjrmh8CjAk Podcast audio: As a historian and philosopher of biology, much of Dr. James Lennoxs research has focused on the philosophical foundations of historys two grea

How to Recognize “Package-Deals”
May 06, 2025

https://youtu.be/sNtIs4UmXns Podcast audio: The most pernicious ideas are often injected into the culture by the method of package-dealing the attempt to integrate the unintegratable. E

The New Iran Deal: Trump Recycles Obama Amoralism
May 05, 2025

https://youtu.be/S53avG169mw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the Trump administrations move to restart nuclear talks wit

An Introduction to Psychology | Gena Gorlin
May 01, 2025

https://youtu.be/Ff78OyGNA40 Podcast audio: 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,

21st-Century Revolutions in Medicine, Health Sciences, and Biotechnology | Amesh Adalja
April 29, 2025

https://youtu.be/oMFbMFvDJ50 Podcast audio: In this talk, Dr. Amesh Adalja details innovative new developments in science that will enhance the lives of individuals. Topics include transpla