In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, broadcast Sunday, September 17, 2017, on TheBlaze, Brook discusses the American Dream and the lost sense of pride in the American people. He also weighs in on the question: Is the United States still the land of opportunity?
In this live panel at Harvard University, Dave Rubin, host of the Rubin Report, Bret Weinstein, formerly a professor at Evergreen State College, and Steve Simpson, director of legal studies at the Ayn Rand Institute, discuss the current state of free speech in America.
In this episode of Selfish for Success, Steve Orma, a psychologist specializing in insomnia and anxiety, interviews philosopher Onkar Ghate. In the interview they discuss typical confusions about selfishness; the objective conditions for a flourishing life; the need to critically question conventional morality; and, the nobility of businessmen.
In the 2016 election, there was widespread concern about “fake news” and media bias. This talk explores the guidance Objectivist epistemology offers for being an objective consumer of the news. How do the requirements of integration and reduction help guide one's acceptance of the reports of others? How do we avoid uncritical reliance on the media without becoming skeptics of journalism as such? How do we avoid bias without abandoning concern for our values?
Tara Smith, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas – Austin, recently addressed an audience of approximately two hundred and fifty members of the intelligence community, imparting an Objectivist perspective on the nature and value of objectivity as a safeguard against politicized or biased military intelligence.
Although Ayn Rand is virtually unknown in France, the release of the French edition of Atlas Shrugged (La Grève) in paperback this March has sparked a burst of interest in Rand in the French media.
In celebration of the launch of The Atlas Project this week, we’ve put together a video highlighting some choice excerpts from the novel, with accompanying archival material. Please enjoy and share widely!
“Oh, hi there,” says Carl Benjamin in a recent video, looking up at the camera from his well-bookmarked copy of The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff. “I’ve been doing some reading, and I’ve discovered something I think you should know. The Nazis were bad. Let me explain to you why.”
