The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast


Latest Episodes

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

The ARI Bookshelf Explores Abundance
May 12, 2025

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

How Capitalists Are Exploited
May 12, 2025

https://youtu.be/0R_RjyOJeI4 Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer, Robertas Bakula, and Tristan de Lige explore how the mixed economy enables the unj

Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits? | James Lennox
May 08, 2025

https://youtu.be/7Wjrmh8CjAk Podcast audio: As a historian and philosopher of biology, much of Dr. James Lennoxs research has focused on the philosophical foundations of historys two grea

How to Recognize “Package-Deals”
May 06, 2025

https://youtu.be/sNtIs4UmXns Podcast audio: The most pernicious ideas are often injected into the culture by the method of package-dealing the attempt to integrate the unintegratable. E

The New Iran Deal: Trump Recycles Obama Amoralism
May 05, 2025

https://youtu.be/S53avG169mw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the Trump administrations move to restart nuclear talks wit

An Introduction to Psychology | Gena Gorlin
May 01, 2025

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,