The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast


Latest Episodes

Private Space Entrepreneurs vs. NASA: How Freedom Fuels Rockets
April 28, 2025

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
April 24, 2025

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
April 22, 2025

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?
April 21, 2025

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
April 17, 2025

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
April 15, 2025

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
April 14, 2025

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
April 10, 2025

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

Objectivity in One-to-One Conversations | Jean Moroney
April 08, 2025

https://youtu.be/093vQKWPwvs Podcast audio: Objectivity is the key to avoiding misunderstandings and making one-to-one conversations productive. There are two contexts of knowledge, two val

Debunking the ‘Not Real Socialism’ Myth
April 07, 2025

https://youtu.be/a3bgumyKdAA Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos dismantle the claim that real socialism has never been at