The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

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OCON 2025: The Pre-Game Show
Podcast Audio 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
The L.A. Riots and Mass Deportation: Both Evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YchKm3DnUFo Podcast Audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss the ongoing mass protests in Los Angeles and
A Central Planner’s Trojan Horse: The Technological Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A28R9JnfNro Podcast audio: In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Elan Journo, Mike Mazza, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Robertas Bakula discuss The Technological
Joe Rogan vs. Douglas Murray: Who’s Right About Trusting Experts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY3NY7gFYtw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Tristan de Lige examine Douglas Murrays recent critique of Joe
Reading Reform Beyond Phonics | Sam Weaver
https://youtu.be/iVJOTxv-tWk Podcast audio: American schools have long performed dismally at providing the education children need to read well. A movement in favor of systematic phonics in
The Making of the Atom Bomb | Evan Picoult
https://youtu.be/o615h8druDE Podcast audio: The creation of the atom bomb during WWII was an extraordinary achievement, dramatized in part in the movie Oppenheimer. What were the three grea
Trump’s Display of Arbitrary Immigration Power
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
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
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
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