The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

Latest Episodes
The Vicious Antitrust Case Against Google
https://youtu.be/5Bpu-bAQXMs Podcast audio: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Robertas Bakula discuss the recent antitrust case against Google and what it reveals about the n
Trump and Harris on Immigration
https://youtu.be/pKCfFCED9XA Podcast audio: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Agustina Vergara Cid and Ben Bayer analyze the anti-American immigration platforms of both the Trump and Harri
How to Defend Free Speech
https://youtu.be/emKgc2aO7x8 Podcast audio: In this episode of New Ideal, Agustina Vergara Cid interviews Gregory Salmieri about his essay Free Speech as a Right and a Way of Life. Amo
Who is a Communist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-eEwx1jv0 Podcast audio: In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the question of whether Kamala Harris is a communist, a
How America’s 9/11 Response Enabled October 7
https://youtu.be/FpjW9B8aE8Q Podcast audio: In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss how the failure of American post-9/11 policy led to the October 7 attacks. A
Contrarians of the New Right
The new Rights absurd positions cannot be explained by their adherence to any coherent ideology, but only by their tribal view of the world.
Free Speech as a Right and a Way of Life
We must understand the philosophical foundations of the right to free speech to apply it to contemporary controversies.
Was Ayn Rand a Jewish Thinker?
https://youtu.be/sdNoDhkU_eA Podcast audio: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Harry Binswanger analyze Alexandra Popoffs new biography, Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Succe
We Ignore the Unconditional Right to Self-Defense at Our Peril
The West is free today because it didnt allow even the death of innocents to impede its right to self-defense.
Neglected Victims, Empowered Cartels
Cartels thrive on the criminalization of immigration that allows them to prey on migrants at the border.