What made the Republicans wake up? How did we end up with Trump and Clinton? What’s missing from the presidential race? In this episode, Yaron Brook takes on the political landscape and considers what the ideal candidate would look like.
Through the second half of October, ARI’s executive director Yaron Brook will be back on the road again. This time, he will be touring in Europe, where he will give talks on Ayn Rand’s philosophy, business, Atlas Shrugged, and the moral argument for laissez-faire capitalism.
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Yaron Brook examines the views and premises of the alt-right movement and argues that it amounts to a faith-based, racist rejection of Enlightenment values such as reason and individualism.
Great news Denver! Beginning October 10, The Yaron Brook Show is now syndicated to Denver’s AM 1690 KDMT, Denver’s Money Talk 1690. The show will be on the air three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12:00 p.m. mountain time.
This Saturday, October 8, Yaron Brook takes on the alt-right. What is the alt-right? Is it the culture movement that disgruntled conservatives are looking for? Or is it a racist reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement? Should we be worried about what they promote?
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Salman v. United States, a case that illustrates the vague, arbitrary, and capricious nature of insider trading “laws.” Insider trading laws restrict people’s ability to buy and sell securities based on “material nonpublic information.” But what the government considers insider trading is often so nebulous that it amounts to ex post facto law: in many cases, it is impossible to know whether you’ve committed a crime until the government says you committed one.
What is free will? Does it even exist? Does it matter? Last week Elan Journo previewed some of the topics to be covered at Ayn Rand Student Conference 2016.
On Saturday, October 1, Yaron Brook will deal with the question: How can you vote objectively when your choices aren’t objective? Brook will look at the presidential candidates and various political issues from a moral standpoint and address what you should consider before checking that box on Election Day. He’ll also suggest ways to bring philosophy back into the conversation when trying to persuade others to vote morally rather than emotionally. The show starts at 7:30 a.m. Pacific/10:30 a.m. Eastern.
In this final installation of the Ayn Rand Institute’s podcast series Inside “A Companion to Ayn Rand,” Don Watkins interviews Harry Binswanger, a member of ARI’s board of directors and author of How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation, on the chapter he contributed, “The Objectivist Esthetics: Art and the Needs of a Conceptual Consciousness.”
