New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute

New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute


The 2024 Elections

April 15, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeuU6AbIDOo

Podcast audio:

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.