In this episode Yaron comments on the terrorist attacks in Nice, France, the failed coup in Turkey and answers questions such as: Is America still the best country to live in? Why do people think it is impractical to militarily defeat our enemies? Why does he argue for free immigration to the US, but not to Israel?
What is free speech? And why should we care? Today there’s a great deal of confusion, which is partly why the campaigns against free speech are so successful.
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, airing July 23 on AM 560 The Answer, Yaron Brook comments on the Republican National Convention’s un-American theme of hysterical fear and discusses the virtues of free trade and the evils of protectionism, the government’s role, if any, in negotiating trade agreements like NAFTA, Donald Trump’s views on free speech and what one can do to advance the cause of freedom.
On August 8 and 9, 2016, Andrew Bernstein, Objectivist philosopher and author of books such as The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire, will deliver no less than three lectures at El Foro Objetivista (The Objectivist Forum) in Guatemala.
When people hear it said that Islam is America’s philosophical enemy, they often recoil at the mistaken implication that the police may therefore arrest anyone who adheres to that religion. But there is a crucial distinction, argues Peter Schwartz, between a philosophical enemy and a political enemy.
We have all witnessed the sad spectacle of college students preventing individuals from exercising their right to free speech by disrupting debates, physically blocking audiences from attending public speeches and demanding “safe spaces” and “speech codes” to shield them from “offensive” ideas.
Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989, Islamic totalitarians have been threatening and killing “offensive” “blasphemers” for the “crime” of exercising their right to free speech. But instead of standing up for and protecting the individual’s right to free speech, our leaders and intellectuals have been busy appeasing those who demand religion-based censorship and blaming the victims for being too provocative.
In this special episode of The Yaron Brook Show, airing July 2 from OCON 2016, Jonathan Hoenig, portfolio manager at Capitalistpig Hedge Fund LLC and a Fox News Contributor and Steve Simpson, director of Legal Studies at ARI and editor of Defending Free Speech, join Yaron Brook to discuss whether America’s Independence Day is still worth celebrating, why the entrepreneurship of Silicon Valley, Seattle and Bellevue represents the best of America, how the whole world has benefitted from the American revolution, the existential and ideological threat to free speech and Steve Simpson’s new book Defending Free Speech.
Today there are many threats to the individual’s right to free speech. Observe, for example, those who want to use so-called campaign finance laws to regulate and, thereby, suppress speech during political elections. Some even want to overturn Supreme Court decisions that properly recognize the free speech of organizations and corporations.
This week, Tara Smith, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System, will give two public talks in the UK.
