The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast


Latest Episodes

News Roundup
June 23, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDj_LhwM0Vw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss two major recent events: Israels war again

Preview of the Objectivist Conference 2025
June 18, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMepGP0ehPo Podcast Audio In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo interviews ARI intellectuals about their upcoming talks at the Objec

The L.A. Riots and Mass Deportation: Both Evil
June 16, 2025

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
June 09, 2025

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?
June 02, 2025

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
June 01, 2025

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
May 30, 2025

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
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