The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

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An Introduction to Psychology | Gena Gorlin
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
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
Private Space Entrepreneurs vs. NASA: How Freedom Fuels Rockets
https://youtu.be/pWpAiAioZTE Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Mike Mazza explore the themes from Mazzas upcoming essay, which argues th
The Revolutionary, Secular Concept of Individual Rights | Ben Bayer
https://youtu.be/79fT9VIDkVs Podcast audio: As Ayn Rand wrote, The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fullyand two hundred ye
Philosophy of Math | Harry Binswanger
https://youtu.be/UaRhK2N8m6Y Podcast audio: A continuation of Dr. Harry Binswangers SavingMathfromPlato(OCON 2023): how the Aristotelian, perception-based approach to mathematics refut
Does Targeting Columbia University Target Intellectual Freedom?
https://youtu.be/qctS25KQzrs Podcast audio: 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
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message Is So Wrong on Palestine | ARI Bookshelf
https://youtu.be/VaNHaT-xlOU Podcast audio: The new ARI Bookshelf podcast series gives you a window into ARIs educational programs by showcasing our faculty as they discuss books of recent
Socratic Wisdom | Jason Rheins
https://youtu.be/RKtLU6ntECU Podcast audio: 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 o
Trump’s Authoritarian War on Trade
https://youtu.be/vFaDm6eo-mk Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer examine the Trump administrations recent tariff policy and the lega
Marx vs. the Individual | Nikos Sotirakopoulos
https://youtu.be/-c6W8JuZsVo Podcast audio: Oppression and authoritarianism have been constant themes in regimes that ruled in the name of Marxism. From the Soviet Union to Cuba and from Yu