Elan Journo will welcome a longtime friend of the Institute's Andrew Layman at this month's exclusive member roundtable. Credited in thirteen software patents, Mr. Layman has held leadership roles at Microsoft, Salesforce, and Github. Prior to that, he authored a market-leading software application that was later acquired.

The answer to the skepticism Sheldon Cooper (on the TV series Young Sheldon) was bombarded with by his philosophy teacher.

The Ayn Rand Institute's weekly podcast exploring pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, which upholds the ideals of reason, individualism, and capitalism.

The Ayn Rand Institute's weekly podcast exploring pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, which upholds the ideals of reason, individualism, and capitalism.

The dominance of the political Left in public discourse, and the resulting phenomena of ‘wokeness’ and ‘cancel culture’, has led to a backlash: a new political Right that fights back and is all-in on the culture wars. But can this new Right actually be an ally to those who care about freedom and capitalism? Is it the lesser of two evils and a potential fellow traveller for the liberty movement?

The Ayn Rand Institute's weekly podcast exploring pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, which upholds the ideals of reason, individualism, and capitalism.

The history of the Left is a series of failures, blood and misery—and yet, in the present, socialism is considered trendy and idealistic, particularly among the youth. On the other end, the Right has reared its ugly head in trying to counter the Left, and we have an increasingly popular new Right that is increasingly nationalistic and authoritarian. But why is it that these sets of ideas are only growing in popularity, and have become the two predominant political forces in today’s culture? Why do bad ideas have so much staying power? And what will it take to overturn their momentum in the culture?

We’re told that the gap between the poor and the rich has widened. Many decry the “injustice” of income and wealth inequality. But is it actually a problem and are the proposed remedies truly just? What is a fair “distribution” of income and wealth? Yaron Brook takes on these and related issues and argues that a genuinely laissez-faire capitalist society is, in fact, the only system of fairness, that is, justice.

The Ayn Rand Institute's weekly podcast exploring pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, which upholds the ideals of reason, individualism, and capitalism.

What are the underlying causes of War? Is capitalism the cure or the cause? Yaron Brook delves into the causes of war and capitalism's role.

Rejecting previous attempts to defend the self-interested nature of markets—including Adam Smith’s famous “invisible hand” theory—Ayn Rand defined a whole new way of thinking about self-interest and, in doing so, provided an indispensable moral foundation for free markets. In this talk, Yaron Brook delves into the morality of finance, free markets, savings, insurance and using debt to fund consumption. Through this talk, Brook will explore the pursuit of capitalist motives and why capitalism is indeed moral.

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