In this episode of RT America’s Fish Tank, Don Watkins talks about the demonization of successful wealth-creators and how the regulatory-welfare state prevents the ambitious poor from enjoying the American Dream.
On June 1 and 2, 2016, Yaron Brook, Steve Simpson and Tara Smith will give presentations at the 2016 Foundations of a Free Society Conference, hosted by the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism (CISC). CISC describes the conference as the largest of its kind in the Southeast, with its attendees reaching and influencing tens of thousands of students and members of the general public each year through teaching and research. Taking part in conferences like this one is an important part of how ARI works to promote Ayn Rand’s revolutionary philosophy.
On Saturday, May 21, guest host Elan Journo will talk about the need for new intellectuals, the preconditions for social change and how to properly think about the “radicalization” of terrorists. He will also take a moment to celebrate human progress and technological innovations, and announce a contest.
In this recent episode of The Yaron Brook Show, originally airing on May 14, 2016, guest host Elan Journo, ARI fellow and author of Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism, discusses the tremendous educational, social and spiritual value of attending Objectivist Summer Conference 2016; whether America needs “elites,” especially in foreign policy; how Hamas’s rise to power illustrates how philosophical ideas shape our foreign policy; the theme of his upcoming book, tentatively titled Unprincipled: Why America’s Foreign Policy Undercuts Israel and Empowers Jihadists; why you should read Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri’s A Companion to Ayn Rand.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s first novel, We the Living. In her foreword to the novel, Rand explains that although the book is set in 1920s Soviet Russia, We the Living is not a historical novel: it “is a story about Dictatorship, any dictatorship, anywhere, at any time” and its goal is to show what “the rule of brute force does to men and how it destroys the best.”
In this event celebrating the launch of their book Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook discuss why they decided to write the book, the way in which the campaign against economic inequality is threatening the American dream and how Equal Is Unfair not only challenges the anti-inequality narrative but also offers a positive alternative.
ARI fellow Don Watkins recently appeared on C-SPAN2 Book TV’s series After Words, in which Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, interviews him about his book Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.
Is Ayn Rand a serious artist concretizing a timeless message or a writer of ideological sermons disguised as novels? Over at Objectivism: Who Needs It, my colleague Onkar Ghate explains why categorizing her as a “didactic fiction” writer is completely wrong.
What is the “foreign policy elite”? Does America need one? What can we expect at Objectivist Summer Conference 2016? Have you picked up a copy of Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri’s A Companion to Ayn Rand yet? (And reasons why you should). These are some of the topics that guest host Elan Journo, ARI fellow and author of Winning the Unwinnable War, will discuss on tomorrow’s all-new episode of The Yaron Brook Show.
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, originally airing on April 30, 2016, Yaron Brook shares his impressions from his recent trip to Latin America, and analyzes at length the cause and implications of the growing sense of alienation and fear in America.
