Addressing a conference of Ayn Rand admirers who seek to expand the influence of her ideas in today's culture, Yaron Brook, CEO and executive chairman of ARI, revisits Ayn Rand’s 1972 article “What Can One Do?” in his discussion of what a single individual can do to effect philosophical change.
An insidious movement on college campuses employs the term “microaggression” to equate objectionable speech with physical force that violates another’s rights.
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?
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.
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.
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.
In this recent episode of The Yaron Brook Show, which aired July 9 on AM 560 The Answer, Yaron Brook argues that racism is evil because it is a form of collectivism and that “colorblind” individualism is the only moral alternative. In the discussion, Yaron touches upon topics such as institutionalized racism in America, the racism of “quotas” and affirmative action, the facts about crime in America and the virtues of Dallas Police Chief David Brown.
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, originally airing on May 28, 2016, guest host Don Watkins examines an article in The Atlantic on the “scientific” case against free will.
