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When It’s Rational to Blame “Both Sides”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id3kFduLXVg Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate discuss both invalid and valid attempts to blame bot
Do Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Get Why Nations Fail?
Podcast audio:This talk by Robertas Bakula was recorded live on July 2nd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and is available on the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podc
How Friendship Can Be Selfish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMJR3ja3s5sPodcast audio:In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Lige and Gregory Salmieri discuss friendship as a moral and philosophical value and explore the relationship between frien
Integrating Science and Free Will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuyhO8xssYYPodcast audio:In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Lige, Mike Mazza, Gregory Salmieri and Ben Bayer discuss Kevin Mitchells book, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Wi
Defending Embryo Screening from Irrational Opposition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-L271Y9HPAPodcast audio:In this Ayn Rand Institute Podcast episode, Mike Mazza and Samantha Watkins analyze objections to new embryo screening technology.Orchids new technologyMoral status of embryos
Principles of a Proper Foreign Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zg_ANzngT0Podcast audio:The American attack on Irans nuclear facilities was met with intense public debate about the proper course of U.S. foreign policy. The Objectivist philosophy offers a distinctive frame
The Injustice of the New Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi8sRxe21qoPodcast audio:In this Ayn Rand Institute Podcast episode, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss the recent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.Overall evaluation of the deal;Evadin
Understanding “Woke” Ideology: Books by Yascha Mounk and Chris Rufo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZCJXTdch2EPodcast audio:In this episode of ARI Bookshelf, Sam Weaver, Ben Bayer, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Ibis Slade critically examine Americas Cultural Revolution by Christopher Rufo and The Identity Trap b
It’s Up to You: Making Choices
This talk by Steven Warden was recorded live on July 3rd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and is available on the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast stream. Listen and subscr
Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V6c-9O3UHk Podcast audio: In this episode ofThe Ayn Rand Institute Podcast,Tristan de Lige and Ben Bayer discuss the widespread claim that Israel is comm





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